Sympathies offered to the Philippines over Typhoon Mangkhut
President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on September 18 extended their condolences to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over the tragic loss caused by Typhoon Mangkhut in the country.
Typhoon Mangkhut hits the Philippines on September 15, causing great damages. (Photo: AP)
Hanoi(VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc onSeptember 18 extended their condolences to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterteover the tragic loss caused by Typhoon Mangkhut in the country.
On the same day,Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh sent his sympathiesto Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alan Peter S. Cayetano over thedeadly tropical storm.
Mangkhut, the strongesttyphoon to hit the Philippines in two years and also the strongest across theworld so far this year, swept through Luzon Island, north of the country onSeptember 15. The storm sustained wind speeds of over 200km per hour and causedpower blackouts in several areas.
By the end ofSeptember 17, the death toll in the Philippines amounted to 65. There wereabout 33 people injured and some 45 still unaccounted for.
The typhoon triggereda total of 81 landslides and 13 flooding incidents in the CordilleraAdministrative Region alone. It also destroyed many houses and forced over60,000 households in the northern region of the Philippines to be evacuated.
Additionally, the storm devastated the country’s production of vegetables, rice,and corn with the harvest season just a month away. –VNA
Northern and north-central localities have taken measures to prepare themselves for super typhoon Mangkhut, which is forecast to bring heavy rains and whirlwind to the regions on September 17-18.
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Typhoon Mangkhut cost the Philippines a total of 250,730 tonnes of paddy rice after it hit across the nation’s northern provinces over the weekend, according to initial official estimates. The figure exceeded a previous forecast by 60 percent.
Philippine and Chinese authorities are still counting the death toll and damage caused by Typhoon Mangkhut, the strongest storm in the world in the last two years.
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Typhoon Mangkhut hits the Philippines on September 15, causing great damages. (Photo: AP)
