‘Typhoon Damrey’: Death toll touches 27 while at least 22 people missing; 40,000 homes damaged

Hanoi, November 5: ‘Typhoon Damrey’ reeling over Vietnam, death toll reached to 27 while 22 others are still missing. Around 40,000 homes are damaged and more than 1,500 people were stranded over railway stations. 

 

The missing includes 17 crew members of cargo ships that were sunk off the coast of the central province of Binh Dinh, the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority said in a statement. Seventy-four other crew members were rescued earlier.

More than 600 houses have been destroyed and nearly 40,000 others damaged as Typhoon Damrey caused widespread blackouts across the region, the disaster agency said.

The typhoon, the second to hit Vietnam in a month, also caused extensive damage to the region’s rice fields and other crops while 228 fishing boats were sunk or damaged, the agency said. It left some 1,500 passengers stranded at railway stations.