Several motorbikes and cars fell into the Red River in Phu Tho Province, with three people so far taken to hospital, according to local media.
A bridge across a river collapsed amid heavy rainfall in northern Vietnam on Monday morning, according to local officials.
The downpour was caused by a weather system recently downgraded from a typhoon, which caused landslides, flooding, power outages, and at least 59 deaths.
The steel bridge was across the Red River in Phu Tho Province.
Rescue operations were continuing, with local reports stating that 10 cars and trucks along with two motorbikes had fallen into the river.
Three people have been pulled out of the river and taken to the hospital, but 13 others are still missing.
Pham Truong Son, 50, told VN Express that he was riding his motorcycle across the bridge when he heard a loud noise and then plummeted into the river
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“I felt like I was drowned to the bottom of the river,” he told the newspaper, adding that he managed to swim and hold on to a drifting banana tree to stay afloat before he was rescued.
Several motorbikes and cars fell into the river, according to initial reports, with three people who had been fished out of the river during the rescue operation being taken to the hospital.
Typhoon Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit Vietnam in decades when it made landfall on Saturday with winds of up to 92 miles per hour.
People carry belongings in a flood triggered by Typhoon Yagi in Lang Son Province, Vietnam, on Sept. 9, 2024. Nguyen Anh Tuan/VNA via AP
Nine people died when the typhoon first hit the country on Saturday before weakening to a tropical depression, and at least 50 more perished in the resulting landslides and floods, VN Express reported.
The water levels of several rivers in the north of the country remain dangerously high.
On Sunday, six people including a child were killed in a landslide that also left nine others injured in Sa Pa town, a popular trekking base known for its terraced rice fields and mountains.
Elsewhere, a bus carrying 20 people was swept into a flooded stream by a landslide in mountainous Cao Bang Province. Rescuers were deployed to the area, but landslides blocked their path.
Skies were overcast in the capital, Hanoi, with some rain on Monday morning as workers cleared up fallen trees, dislodged billboards, and toppled electricity pylons.
Heavy rain continued in northwestern Vietnam, and forecasters said levels could exceed 15 inches in places.
A flood triggered by Typhoon Yagi submerges houses in Lang Son Province, Vietnam, on Sept. 9, 2024. Nguyen Anh Tuan/VNA via AP
Initially, at least 3 million people were left without electricity in Quang Ninh and Haiphong provinces, and it remains unclear how much has been restored.
The two provinces are industrial hubs, housing many factories including EV maker VinFast and Apple suppliers Pegatrong and USI.
Factory workers said that many industrial parks were flooded and that the roofs of many factories had been blown away.
Some companies said they still didn’t have electricity on Monday and that it would take at least a month to resume production.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited Haiphong City on Sunday and approved a package of $4.62 million to help the port city recover.
Typhoon Yagi also damaged 116,192 hectares of agricultural land where rice is mostly grown.
China and the Philipines Also Hit
Before hitting Vietnam, the typhoon killed at least 20 people in the Philippines last week and caused four deaths in China.
Chinese authorities said infrastructure damages across the Hainan island province amounted to $102 million, with 57,000 houses destroyed or damaged, power and water outages, and roads damaged or impassable due to fallen trees.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
