Typhoon Noru Tears Across Vietnam, Laos
Faizan Hashmi Published September 28, 2022 | 04:30 PM
Danang, Vietnam, Sept 28 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Sep, 2022 ) :Typhoon Noru tore roofs from homes and caused power outages across central Vietnam Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of people taking refuge, after the storm claimed at least 10 lives in the Philippines.
In Danang, Vietnam's third-largest city, high-rise buildings shook as the typhoon made landfall in the early hours of Wednesday, bringing winds of up to around 120 kilometres (75 miles) per hour, according to the national forecaster.
More than 300,000 people in Vietnam hunkered down in shelters overnight after experts predicted the storm would be one of the biggest to ever hit the country.
By Wednesday evening, it weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed into southern Laos, but forecasters in Vietnam warned of landslides and serious flooding in the typhoon's wake.
The defence ministry has mobilised around 40,000 soldiers and 200,000 militia members, equipped with armoured vehicles and boats in preparation for rescue and relief operations, state media said.
In the tourist city of Hoi An, the Hoai River was close to bursting its banks, while the ground was littered with metal roof sheeting and fallen trees that had damaged cars and blocked roads.
Several streets in the old town were under water.
"The typhoon was terrible last night. I could not sleep as the wind was so strong and loud," resident Nguyen Thi Hien told AFP.
Around 300 houses in the coastal province of Quang Tri had their roofs blown off on Tuesday as the wind began picking up speed.
"I heard the sound of fallen trees and signboards outside. I was scared. But we were prepared so luckily the losses were not that bad." Residents rushed to clean up the debris early on Wednesday, with some shops already open and tourists walking the streets, taking pictures of the floodwater.
Reshma D'Souza, from India, spent a frightening night in her hotel room. At around 1 am, she said, she saw that the "wall was vibrating".
"(It was) shaking, so I was just praying and I was so scared."Airports and offices across central provinces began to reopen on Wednesday afternoon.
But key sections of the highway linking Hanoi in the north with commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City in the south remained closed due to landslides and floods, according to state media.
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