Typhoon Wipha made landfall in northern Vietnam around 09:30 local time on Tuesday, bringing torrential rains, power outages, and infrastructure damage, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
The typhoon struck coastal areas between Hung Yen and Ninh Binh provinces, sustaining maximum winds of 88 km per hour, equivalent to level 8-9 on the Beaufort scale, with gusts reaching level 11, according to Vietnam's National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Coastal provinces have been placed on emergency alert, and airlines have canceled flights.
At around 8:30 a.m., a suspension bridge in Dien Bien province partially collapsed due to prolonged heavy rains, injuring four people, the Voice of Vietnam reported.
Power outages were reported in parts of Tien Hai commune in Hung Yen province.
Residents were seen bringing fuel containers to gas stations to purchase fuel for generators, local media outlet VnExpress reported.
Meanwhile, central provinces such as Thanh Hoa and Nghe An recorded rainfall of 150 to 200 mm, raising the risk of landslides and flash floods, local authorities warned.
The Vietnamese government has presented some protection measures to farmland, fishponds and forests, and they have mobilized 350,000 soldiers and officers to participate in the disaster prevention job.
Typhoon Wipha causes heavy rains, power outages after landfall in Vietnam
The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2 has risen to 3,666, with 11,321 others wounded, as Israeli strikes and shelling across the country continued, according to data released by Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday.
The latest update comes as fresh violence continued on Tuesday, with at least 16 people killed and dozens injured in a wave of Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks across southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.
The deadliest attack targeted a residential area in the southern city of Tyre, where eight people were killed and 32 others were wounded, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) and local search and rescue officials.
Elsewhere, six people were killed in separate drone strikes in the Nabatieh region, including four in a pre-dawn attack on the town of Kfar Remmen. In another incident, two Syrian nationals were killed in a preliminary toll from a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted the area between the towns of Ansariyeh and Adloun.
Lebanon's Civil Defense Directorate said two of its personnel sustained minor injuries when a drone strike hit an area in the town of Sharqiya while they were responding to an earlier attack on a vehicle.
The continued violence comes despite a ceasefire agreement reached on June 3 following trilateral negotiations in Washington involving Lebanon, Israel, and the United States.
Lebanon death toll climbs to 3,666 as Israeli strikes continue
