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Deadly Tropical Storm Kajiki causes heavy flooding in Vietnam after
making landfall as typhoon
By Helen Regan, CNN
Updated:
1:57 AM EDT, Tue August 26, 2025
Source: CNN
Tropical Storm Kajiki proved deadly in Vietnam after it made landfall
as a powerful typhoon on Monday, unleashing dangerous winds and
prompting authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of residents as it
surged through the country’s central provinces.
Three people were killed across three provinces and 13 others were
injured, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday.
Kajiki barreled into Vietnam’s Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces at
around 3 p.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) with wind speeds of 133 kph (82
mph), according to Vietnam’s national weather forecast agency. It has
since weakened into a tropical storm.
Powerful gusts ripped through properties, uprooted trees from the
ground and knocked down lampposts, according to state media. More than
6,800 houses sustained damage and 28,000 hectares of rice fields were
flooded, VNA reported.
Seven central and northeast provinces were affected by Kajiki’s
strong winds, torrential rain and flooding. In the capital Hanoi, which
is 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of where the typhoon made landfall,
heavy flooding disrupted traffic and inundated homes.
Earlier, residents and business owners along the coast had boarded up
windows and stacked sandbags outside homes, restaurants and hotels.
Authorities shut down schools, two provincial airports, and organized
mass evacuations from coastal provinces as Kajiki – the fifth named
storm to hit Vietnam this year – churned toward the Southeast Asian
nation.
More than 44,000 people had been evacuated in low-lying coastal
communities, VNA reported.
Huge waves pound central provinces
Eyewitnesses described huge waves gushing through streets in the
coastal regions, according , as roofs collapsed and homes were flooded.
“It’s terrifying,” said Dang Xuan Phuong, 48, who lives in Cua
Lao, a tourism town in Nghe An. “When I look down from the higher
floors, I could see waves as tall as two meters, and the water has
flooded the roads around us.”
Areas in Ha Tinh were left without power and unstable phone networks
after torrential rain forced residents to seek shelter, according to
state media reports, which also said that the storm triggered tidal
surges, flooding coastal areas in Thanh Hoa province.
The storm was moving slowly and “gradually weakening,” according to
an update from the country’s weather forecast agency on Monday
evening, but added that the risk of strong winds remained. It came
after the Joint Typhoon Warning Center previously forecast that Kajiki
would drop to tropical depression strength by early Tuesday.
Authorities in the country’s central provinces activated emergency
measures on Sunday, which included a plan to evacuate around 587,000
people from Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Hue and Danang provinces, banning
fishing vessels from leaving shore and securing dams and flood walls,
according to VNA.
More than 300,000 military personnel were mobilized with the Navy,
Coast Guard and Air Force on standby for rescue operations, the news
agency reported.
Vietnamese government officials had compared the storm to , the most
powerful storm to hit the region last year, which devastated
Vietnam’s north, killing about 300 people and causing widespread
damage to infrastructure, factories and farmland. Yagi as the
equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane, and while Kajiki is weaker, it
has brought destructive winds and flooding.
Climate projections ‘materializing’
The storm is expected to move inland towards Laos and Thailand,
China’s Meteorological Center reported, with the risk for flash
flooding and mudslides increasing. Between 200-400 millimeters of rain
is forecast in some regions in Vietnam, with isolated areas exceeding
600 mm.
Kajiki had brushed past the southern coast of and parts of Guangdong
province Sunday evening. Known for its sandy beaches, luxury resorts
and duty-free shopping, the city of Sanya on Hainan island closed
tourist attractions, shuttered businesses and suspended public
transport.
Sanya downgraded its typhoon alert on Monday morning but cautioned that
heavy rain and storms in southern Hainan were expected to continue,
Reuters reported.
Scientists have long warned the human-induced climate crisis – for
which developed nations bear greater historical responsibility –
exacerbated the scale and intensity of regional storms, with countries
in the Global South facing the worst impacts.
“It’s frightening to see our projections from just last year
already materializing,” Benjamin Horton, a professor of earth science
at City University, Hong Kong, told the Associated Press. “We are no
longer predicting the future — we are living it.”
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