Vietnam, Tropical Storm Bebinca

The movement of Tropical Storm (TS) Bebinca has been detected since 13 August 2018 by ASEAN Disaster Monitoring and Response System (DMRS). It finally made landfall in northern province of Viet Nam on 17 August 2018 morning. Vietnamese National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) stated that the strongest wind speeds reached 40 kph. TS Bebinca brought heavy rainfall in northern provinces of Quang Ninh, Lai Chau, Cao Bang, Hoa Binh, Lang Son, Hoa Binh, Yen Bai, Nam Dinh, and Thanh Hoa. Prior to the landfall, on 15 August, Ministry of Health had instructed health department in provinces at risk to stock medicines, supplies, and had their emergency teams on standby. At the same day, Hoa Nih and Tuyen Quang reservoirs had their floodgate open as well. Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority (VDMA) reported flooding in districts of Quy Hop, Con Cuong, Tuong Duong, Que Phong, and Ky Son. It caused disruption to local residents. However, the most affected area was in Muong Lat District and neighboring districts, Thanh Hoa Distrcit. Since until 18 August 2018, a total of 1708 families / 6354 people were displaced from the communes of Thieu Duong, Thieu Khanh, Hoang Ly, and Hoang Anh due to flooding. In addition, a major landslide also occured in National Highway 15C; 16 landslide points in Muong Ly, 15 in Nhi Son, 14 in Trung Ly, 3 in Pu Nhi, and 3 in Quang Chieu. About 420 officers have been deployed on the ground to overcome the situation. Up to 4am on August 18, 2018, the city has relocated 1,708 / 6,354 people in the communes of Thieu Duong, Thieu Khanh, Hoang Ly, Hoang Anh from the flooded areas. Preliminary statistics, due to the impact of typhoon No. 4, to the end of 17/8/2018 rain floods have killed 2 people, one missing in Son La province. 1. Floods have affected 26 houses, including one house collapsed completely, 06 houses have to move urgently due to landslide and located in areas with high risk of landslide. 2. The whole province has over 130ha of rice flooded, buried and washed away. 3. Son La province has 31 traffic jams on National and provincial roads: Highway No. 6, 37, 46, 4G. The district roads in Phu Yen, Moc Chau, Muong La and landslides caused many local points in the route. 4. Two suspension bridges are spilled and washed away and many irrigation works, hydropower were affected, damage. 5. The 110 KV electric pole was broken; High-voltage transformer station was struck by lightning which made Yen Chau, Moc Chau and Van Ho districts completely run out of electric. This morning (18/8), the damaged localities continue to carry out recovery works, actively search for missing persons; and urgently mobilizing forces and supplies to carve Immediately fix the problem to be able to re-supply power soon. On the morning of 18-8, rainfall in the district of Muong Lat has decreased, so the district focuses on implementing remedial work, in which the most important is the relief of landslide, causing division, collapse Traffic on National Road 15C and other routes. According to the report of the People‘ Committee of Muong Lat district, as of 18-8, there are over 50 landslide sites in the district along Highway 15C from Trung Ly to Muong Lat township, National Road 16C and Provincial Highway 521E . Of which, the heaviest communes are Muong Ly (16 points), Nhi Son (15 points), Trung Ly (14 points), Pu Nhi (3 points) and Quang Chieu (3 points). The landslides caused the complete traffic separation, isolating Muong Lat district with other districts. From afternoon 17-8, Muong Lat district has mobilized some machines to clear landslide points on Highway 15C. District People‘ Committee has also requested the Department of Transportation to support more machinery and means. On the morning of 18-8, the Department of Transportation - Transportation has taken 6 machines to Muong Lat district to focus on clearing the landslide, causing division on Highway 15C. As well as the number of vehicles in the district, there will be about 10 machines running, clearing the landslide. If the weather is favorable, rain falls, Muong Lat district strives to finish late afternoon on August 19 will basically complete the relief, back to 15C highway. Besides, rainstorms also caused Muong Lat district to lose power on a large scale from 17-8. Pham Van Son, head of the Muong Lat district People‘ Committee‘ Office, said: "The floods have caused flooding and the power lines in Hang Ma, Hoi Xuan, Quan Hoa districts have caused the entire Muong Lat district to lose power. widespread. Currently, the power units waiting for the new springs can deploy the repair, so that they can re-supply power in the shortest time. In addition, internet optical cable to Muong Lat district has been interrupted, not accessible. Stormy storms caused the collapse of a house in Chai village, Muong Chanh commune; Many households in some communes are damaged, many areas of rice, crops, ponds and aquaculture of people are damaged. In the immediate future, the People‘ Committee of Muong Lat district has directed the communes, towns, sectors To actively inspect and encourage families who have died, collapsed houses, suffered heavy losses on crops and at the same time to continue carrying out the relocation of households in high-risk areas. Remove landslide to safe place.