Storm Vamco slammed Vietnam on Sunday destroying buildings and injuring at least five people after it has taken 69 lives in the Philippines and left several areas of the Luzon group of islands flooded.
Storm Vamco downgraded from a typhoon in the Philippines that left 69 dead and devastating damage across several provinces in the Luzon group of islands.
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Storm Vamco in Vietnam
No fatalities were reported in Vietnam.
According to media reports, Typhoon Vamco had winds of 56 mph as it made landfall in Vietnam as it uprooted trees, blew off roofs of houses and schools.
As the country prepared for the coming of Typhoon Vamco, Vietnam authorities evacuated approximately 650,000 residents from seven coastal provinces to higher and safer grounds.
The storm has damaged more than 400,000 homes, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.
Several roads and bridges were washed away. Power supplies were disrupted, while important food crops were damaged, posing a threat to at least 150,000 people at the risk of going hungry.
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Rescue Operations Still On-going in Flooded Parts of the Philippines
The death toll from Typhoon Vamco rose to 69, while 12 people are still reported missing. Many areas in Cagayan Valley province is still underwater, authorities said.
Twenty-four people were reported dead in Cagayan, 17 died in Calabarzon, while 10 died in the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR), while eight died in Metro Manila and Bicol region.
Cagayan Valley Province Governor Manuel Mamba described the flooding as the worst flooding that the province had in the last 45 years, and it worsens every year, he added.
Thousands of families were displaced in the province and Cagayan, some of whom had to get to their rooftops to escape from two-story-high floods.
Governor Mamba blamed the accumulated effects of weather disturbances, a massive volume of waters released from Magat Dam in Isabela caused the severe flooding in the province.
He also lamented that the denuded forests in Cagayan are also the culprit.
President Rodrigo Duterte attributed the disaster to climate change.
Relief and rescue operations are still on-going in Cagayan Province. The province of Isabela also experienced severe flooding. It is in Isabela where the Magat Dam kept on releasing water two days after releasing a volume comparable to two Olympic-sized poos per second.
Philippines and Vietnam Battered by strong, successive typhoons
According to the PAG-ASA, the state's weather service station, typhoon weary residents of Luzon can relax this week as no weather disturbance is expected in the next coming days,
Six cyclones hit the Philippines in four weeks, two of which, Typhoons Vamco (Ulysses) and Goni (Rolly) is the world's most powerful cyclone this year.
In Vietnam, Vamco is the latest of successive storms that battered Vietnam over the past six weeks which caused significant flooding and landslides claiming the lives of 159 people, while 70 were declared missing.
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