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Death toll climbs to 199 in Vietnam as typhoon's aftermath brings flash floods and landslides

Sep. 12, 2024 06:00 AM EDT

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and 128 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll, state media reported Thursday. Vietnam's VNExpress newspaper reported that 199 people have died while more than 800 have...

Deaths rise to 197 in Vietnam as flash floods and landslides in the wake of Typhoon Yagi take their toll

Sep. 12, 2024 00:03 AM EDT
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Deaths rise to 197 in Vietnam as flash floods and landslides in the wake of Typhoon Yagi take their toll.

Flash flood sweeps away hamlet as Vietnam's storm toll rises to 155 dead

Sep. 11, 2024 21:29 PM EDT

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 30 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155 on Wednesday. Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV said the torrent of water gushing down from a...

Death toll from Vietnam storm rises to 87 with 70 people missing, state media say

Sep. 10, 2024 06:47 AM EDT
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Death toll from Vietnam storm rises to 87 with 70 people missing, state media say.

Storm deaths in Vietnam rise to 59 and flooding sweeps away a bus carrying 20 people, state media report

Sep. 09, 2024 03:44 AM EDT
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Storm deaths in Vietnam rise to 59 and flooding sweeps away a bus carrying 20 people, state media report.

Typhoon Yagi kills 14 in Vietnam as officials warn of heavy rain that can cause flooding

Sep. 08, 2024 09:21 AM EDT

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — At least 14 people have died and 176 others injured in Vietnam after Typhoon Yagi slammed the country's north, state media said Sunday, as officials warned of heavy downpours despite its waning power. Described by Vietnamese officials as one of the most...

A hurricane-damaged Louisiana skyscraper is imploded

Sep. 07, 2024 11:13 AM EDT

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An abandoned, 22-story building in Lake Charles, Louisiana — once an icon in the city that became a symbol of destruction from hurricanes Laura and Delta — was imploded Saturday after sitting vacant for nearly four years. The Hertz Tower crashed down in...

Typhoon Yagi leaves at least 4 dead and scores injured in Vietnam

Sep. 07, 2024 10:36 AM EDT

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese meteorological officials as “one of the most powerful typhoons...

Maui's toxic debris could fill 5 football fields 5 stories deep. Where will it end up?

Sep. 07, 2024 00:21 AM EDT

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she plucked black snails, spiny lobsters...

Residents in a Louisiana city devastated by 2020 hurricanes are still far from recovery

Sep. 06, 2024 18:33 PM EDT

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Every other day Lois Malvo waits for her son to bring six buckets of water from a spigot in the backyard. He then bathes his 78-year-old mother using water heated on the stove and washes her with a spray pump he bought online. It’s been four years since...