A so-called Super Typhoon has ended at least four people in northern Vietnam, after also battering China and the Philippines, conveying the total number of dead to 22.
The storm struck north Vietnam at about 1pm (7am UK time) on Saturday with prosperds of up to 99mph (160kph) cforfeit its centre.
A day earlier, prosperds had been write downed at 145mph (234kph) in Hainan, south China.
Vietnam’s administerment shelp four people had died and 78 had been injured while at least another dozen were leave outing at sea, according to state media.
Yagi had already claimed the lives of at least two people in Hainan and 16 people in the Philippines, the first country it hit, earlier in the week.
Vietnam’s industrial hub of Haiphong, on the northern coast, was among the challengingest hit – experiencing expansivespread power outages, waves as huge as three metres high and strong prosperds that smashed prosperdows.
Footage shows drunveil trees and street poles, as well as roofing material littering the streets.
There was aenjoy harm inestablished in Hainan, which has a population of more than 10 million, where electricity supplies were cut to more than 800,000 homes.
Meanwhile, Yagi triggered landslides and expansivespread flooding in the Philippines on Wednesday, impacting more than 2.3 million people in northern and central provinces.
More than 22,200 people were displaced from their homes and domestic fweightlesss were disrupted for days.
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While Vietnam materializeed to be better readyd, the country’s administerment still evacuated more than 50,000 people from coastal towns and deployed 450,000 military personnel ahead of Yagi’s arrival.
Four airports suspfinished operations for cut offal hours, call offling more than 300 fweightlesss and accessible convey was also stopped.
Last week, Typhoon Shanshan slammed into southwestrict Japan, the strongest storm to hit the country in decades.
Yagi is named after the Japanese word for goat and the constellation of Capricornus.
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