At least five people have died in central Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pounded the country with torrential rain and high winds, officials said Friday.
Three of the deaths were reported in the province of Dak Lak, while two people were killed in Gia Lai.
Three people, meanwhile, were missing in the coastal province of Quang Ngai, Vietnamese state media said.
What is the extent of the damage in Vietnam?
The storm uprooted trees and downed power lines, leaving some 1.6 million households without power. It also caused dozens of homes to collapse and severely damaged or blew the roofs off of over 2,600 others.
Vietnamese authorities have warned of continued torrential rains, with forecasts of up to 200 millimeters (8 inches) in the center of the country, where rising river levels have also triggered warnings of landslides and floods.
Before Kalmaegi’s arrival, Vietnam was still recovering from days of record-breaking amounts of rain that caused flash floods.
Kalmaegi, which had devastated the Philippines before heading west over the South China Sea into mainland Southeast Asia, had weakened to a tropical depression on Friday morning.
It has left Vietnam and moved into neighboring Laos and Cambodia.
What is the situation in the Philippines?
Clean up and rescue operations were underway in the center of the Philippines, where Kalmaegi made landfall Tuesday.
At least 188 people have been killed in the island nation, while some 135 are still missing, according to the Office of Civil Defense.
Around half a million people have been displaced, while nearly 450,000 people were evacuated to shelters, where over 318,000 remained Friday.
President Ferninand Marcos Jr. was due to visit the worst affected areas in the central Cebu province later on Friday.
New storm bears down on the Philippines
Marcos Jr. has declared a state of emergency, with the Philippines braced for another potentially strong tropical cyclone, Typhoon Fung-wong.
Known in the Philippines as Uwan, the storm is expected strengthen into another Super Typhoon before making landfall in Aurora province in the north of the archipelago on Sunday night or early Monday.
Aurora is just north of the capital Manila, the country’s most densely populated region.
Kalmaegi is the 13th typhoon this year in the South China Sea.
The Philippines is hit by around 20 tropical cyclones each year. More than 6,300 people died when Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the country in November 2013.
Edited by: Kieran Burke
