Ten others wounded and nearly 7,000 homes damaged after Kajiki batters Vietnam with fierce winds and torrential rains.
At least three people have been killed in Vietnam after Typhoon Kajiki battered northern and central areas of the country, bringing fierce winds and torrential rains that collapsed homes, felled trees and turned streets in the capital, Hanoi, into rivers.
The storm, which made landfall in Vietnam on Monday, also left at least 10 people wounded, authorities said on Tuesday.
It has now crossed into Laos, weakened into a tropical depression.
Vietnam’s government, in a statement, said Kajiki damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares (71,166 acres) of rice plantings and felled some 18,000 trees. It also brought down 331 electricity poles, causing widespread blackouts in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho provinces.
