Thousands of evacuees in Vietnam after the arrival of typhoon ‘Noru’

Sep. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Typhoon ‘Noru’ made landfall in Vietnam early Wednesday with gusts of up to 117 kilometers per hour, causing extensive material damage.

The country’s National Hydrometeorological Prediction Center has reported that the typhoon hit the coast around 04:00 local time, causing flooding and strong winds.

The deputy director general of the Central Energy Corporation, Le Hoang Anh Dung, has indicated that ‘Noru’ has caused power outages in some provinces, as reported by the Vietnamese media ‘VnExpress’.

In this sense, nearly 555,000 homes have been left without electricity due to the breakdown of the medium voltage line in the area.

So far, local authorities have not reported any fatalities.

The deputy prime minister, Le Van Thanh, has asked the population for caution, after ordering local authorities to continue monitoring the situation.

“It has been shown in different cases that many people did not die in the storm but in subsequent floods,” he said.

Experts estimate that ‘Noru’ may be the strongest storm in the country of those recorded in the last 20 years.

The storm formed on September 22 in the Philippines, where it has been the strongest storm so far this year, killing at least eight people.