Vietnam, Wipha
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Tropical Storm Wipha made a second landfall in Vietnam on Tuesday, after lashing China earlier, bringing torrential rain and strong winds as authorities rushed to evacuate low-lying areas and warned of possible floods and landslides.
Storm Wipha has triggered widespread flooding in northern Vietnam after making landfall Tuesday morning, and is expected to bring heavy thunderstorms to Hanoi by evening.
Tropical storm Wipha was set to cross Vietnam's northern coastline on Tuesday morning, with almost 350,000 soldiers on standby as the state weather agency forecast up to 50 cm (20 inches) of rainfall that could cause flooding and mudslides.
Storm No. 3 (Wipha) officially weakened into a tropical depression over land in Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces.
Britons have been issued a travel warning for Vietnam as the country braces for Storm Wipha. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has today warned the storm is on approach to northern Vietnam,
The thunderstorm came so suddenly that it overturned the boat within seconds, said two survivors of the shipwreck which killed at least 35 people in Vietnam's top tourist spot of Halong Bay and left another four missing.
On the afternoon of July 22, the center of Tropical Storm No. 3 made landfall. It is expected to weaken into a tropical depression within the next 24 hours.
The death toll from a tourist boat accident in Vietnam’s Halong Bay climbed to at least 38 with several people still missing, the government said, as rescuers continued to search for survivors while bracing for the approach of Typhoon Wipha.
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