Typhoon Yagi’s Vietnam death toll rises to 14, including family of 4 killed in landslide

The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam rose to 14 on Sunday, and the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression, after it ripped roofs off buildings, sank boats and triggered landslides.

The typhoon left a trail of destruction and two dozen people dead across southern China and the Philippines before it ravaged Vietnam.

A family of four was killed in a landslide in the mountainous Hoa Binh province of northern Vietnam early on Sunday morning, according to state media.

The landslide happened around midnight, after several hours of heavy rain brought by Yagi, when a hillside gave way and collapsed onto a house, VNExpress said, citing local authorities.

Since Friday, 10 others have been killed in storm-related incidents, some crushed by falling trees or drifting boats, the defence ministry’s disaster management agency said Sunday.

While Vietnam’s weather agency downgraded the storm on Sunday, several areas of the port city of Hai Phong were under half a metre of floodwater, and electricity was out, with power lines and electric poles damaged, according to AFP journalists.