Severe damage has been caused by incessant heavy rains in the last few days across the country, according to the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control.
In the southern province of Tay Ninh, rains flattened a house, inundated 50 others, devastated 20 hectares of crops and in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta, three houses’ roofs were blown away.
In Lai Chau Province, heavy rains caused a landslide along a section of Highway 129 in Phin Ho Commune, bringing traffic to a crawl.
Roads from Ta Ghenh to Nam Pay and other key roads in the province also faced similar conditions. The provincial Department of Transport said it would take two or three days for traffic to resume.
A tropical low pressure system in the East Sea is now moving northwestwards to the central and northern regions, according to the National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Center.
The eye of the low pressure system is located at the southeast part of the East Sea. Strongest winds near the eye of the storm were at levels 6-7, moving at 39-61kph.
Weather forecasters say the tropical low pressure system will move northwestwards at 15-20km an hour and will intensify in the next 24 hours.
The Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue have instructed 52,717 fishing boats to move ashore before the appearance of the new tropical storm.
