Typhoon Kalmaegi battered Vietnam after wreaking destruction across the Philippines, leaving five people dead and several missing. The storm brought fierce winds reaching 149 km/h and torrential rains that pounded flood-hit regions in Gia Lai and Dak Lak provinces. Authorities said 57 houses collapsed, while nearly 2,600 others were damaged or lost their roofs — most of them in Gia Lai.
Three people died in Dak Lak and two in Gia Lai, while three more remained missing in Quang Ngai. Videos shared on social media showed powerful winds overturning vehicles, uprooting trees, and flooding homes in Binh Dinh Province. Water levels there reached their highest mark in a decade.
As Kalmaegi weakened into a tropical storm and moved into Cambodia, cleanup efforts began across central Vietnam. The typhoon’s impact followed its deadly rampage in the Philippines, where 188 people were killed and 135 remained missing. More than half a million people were displaced, with hundreds of thousands still in shelters.
Scientists warn that climate change is intensifying storms across Southeast Asia, making future typhoons more destructive and unpredictable.
