Typhoon Kalmaegi brings rain and destruction to Vietnam as death toll nears 190 in Philippines

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· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 4:52 AM EST | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

At slightest 5 radical died successful Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pummelled coastal regions with destructive winds and dense rain, officials said connected Friday, pursuing the storm's deadly transition done the Philippines wherever it killed astatine slightest 188 people.

The tempest made landfall successful cardinal Vietnam precocious connected Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes, and triggering powerfulness outages, earlier weakening arsenic it moved inland.

Authorities warned of continuing dense rainfall of up to 200 millimetres successful cardinal provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Tri and said rising stream levels from Hue to Dak Lak could trigger flooding and landslides.

In Gia Lai province, which bore the brunt of the typhoon, shrimp workplace proprietor Nguyen Dinh Sa reported catastrophic losses.

"I went to cheque them each hr yesterday until evening. I had done everything but could not prevention them," Sa, 26, said, lamenting the demolition of astir six metric tons of shrimp.

"All my investments are gone. I americium truthful hopeless astatine the moment," helium said. Sa's two-storey warehouse, utilized for storing shrimp feed, was concisely submerged owed to seven-metre-high waves and beardown winds.

The typhoon near a way of demolition on the coast, toppling trees, scattering shattered solid and roofing sheets, with residents gathering astir generators to recharge their phones.

Vietnam's catastrophe absorption bureau said 7 radical were reported injured, and astir 2,800 homes were damaged. About 1.3 cardinal radical were without electricity, it said.

The state-run Vietnam News Agency said the railway successful Quang Ngai had been damaged. The authorities said it had mobilized much than 268,000 soldiers for search-and-rescue operations and warned of flooding, which could impact agriculture successful the Central Highlands, Vietnam's main coffee-growing region.

Philippines president tours Cebu damage

In the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. visited evacuation centres connected Friday, distributing alleviation assistance and assuring victims of continued authorities support, aft Kalmaegi near 135 radical missing and injured 96 others.

"We are very, precise sorry," helium told provincial officials successful Cebu.

"Most of the victims were carried distant by the rushing waters, the sheer measurement and velocity of the flash floods."

Kalmaegi is the 13th typhoon to signifier successful the South China Sea this year. Vietnam and the Philippines are highly susceptible to tropical storms and typhoons owed to their locations on the Pacific typhoon belt, regularly experiencing harm and casualties during highest tempest seasons.

The Philippines' civilian aviation regulator has placed each country centres and airdrome operations nether heightened alert successful mentation for another typhoon, Fung-wong, which is forecast to intensify into a super typhoon before making landfall successful the bluish Philippines connected Sunday evening oregon aboriginal Monday morning.

The forecast calls for landfall successful bluish Aurora province, with the effects perchance impacting the densely populated superior portion of Manila.