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This aerial photograph shows the old town of Hoi An, a UNESCO world heritage site, on October 30, 2020, after Typhoon Molave. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)
HANOI – Rescuers searched for more signs of life on Friday after a series of deadly landslides in central Vietnam triggered by heavy rains from Typhoon Molave as another powerful storm hurtled toward the Southeast Asian region.
Helicopters, soldiers and search dogs have been deployed to search for dozens of people feared to have died in Vietnam in at least five landslides in a central region plagued by weeks of intense weather and the worst flooding in years.
Molave has killed about 40 people since arriving in Vietnam two days ago, though many people were rescued Thursday, including three fishermen found at sea by a cargo ship and 33 people taken from a small town buried by land. .
“The typhoon has left extremely great damage,” Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung told a cabinet meeting on Friday.
Central Vietnam has had a difficult year, dealing with typhoons that killed at least 160 people, left dozens missing, devastated villages, razed crops and forced hundreds of thousands to take refuge.
Meanwhile, another storm named Goni gathered strength as it crept toward the Philippines, with winds of up to 165 kilometers (103 miles) per hour.
It could make landfall in the Philippines early Sunday morning, with winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour, its meteorological agency said. Molave killed 22 people in the Philippines.
Goni is on track to reach central Vietnam next week and would be the country’s ninth typhoon this year.
“My house is covered in deep mud and debris, but I don’t have any plans to clean it up because I heard that more storms are coming,” Quang Tri province resident Nguyen Thi Sinh said by phone.
“No one had foreseen such serious floods. Crops and livestock disappeared with the floodwaters. We have to cheer ourselves up, at least we’re still alive, ”added Sinh.
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