Motorists ride against the wing on the day Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Vietnam's Gia Lai Province, November 6, 2025. NHAC NGUYEN / AFP
Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam on Friday, November 7, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines, where the death toll rose to 188. Kalmaegi unleashed record rainfall and flooding in the central Philippines this week, sweeping away cars, trucks and shipping containers before lashing Vietnam late Thursday.
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Vietnamese authorities were still assessing the damage on Friday morning, but the environment ministry reported five dead, and 57 houses collapsed in Gia Lai and neighbouring Dak Lak. Nearly 3,000 more had their roofs blown off or were damaged, it said, while 11 boats or ships sank. In the streets along Gia Lai's Quy Nhon beach, Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists saw rescue workers and soldiers working with residents to clear uprooted trees, remove debris and collect sheet-metal roofs blown away in the night.
