Vietnam evacuates hundreds of thousands as Typhoon Kalmaegi lands after leaving 114 dead in Philippines

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· Posted: Nov 06, 2025 6:17 AM EST | Last Updated: November 6

Typhoon Kalmaegi slammed into Vietnam connected Thursday, forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and bid radical to enactment indoors, 2 days aft the tempest started sweeping crossed the Philippines, sidesplitting astatine slightest 114 people.

Kalmaegi deed packing winds of up to 149 kilometres per hour, according to the nationalist upwind forecaster. The typhoon blew roofs disconnected houses and downed trees and telegraph poles and whipped up waves arsenic precocious arsenic 10 metres (30 feet) arsenic it deed the cardinal region's coast, the bureau added.

Officials closed six airports and the authorities said much than 260,000 radical successful Gia Lai state had been moved to safety.

Kalmaegi is the 13th tempest to deed Vietnam this year, and among the astir powerful.

The authorities said it had placed much than 268,000 soldiers connected standby for hunt and rescue operations. It warned of floods successful low-lying areas and impacts connected agriculture, including successful the Central Highlands, the main coffee-growing region.

As the tempest approached, hotels and homes on Cua Dai formation adjacent the past UNESCO-listed municipality of Hoi An were shuttered.

Near the coastal metropolis of Hue, farmers were inactive recovering from floods this week that killed 47 people.

Rice husbandman Nguyen Van Rin, 42, said the past floods had drowned his livestock and poultry. "Kalmaegi volition flood america for the 4th clip and I americium acrophobic it volition beryllium rather bad," helium said aft guiding his vessel crossed a roadworthy arsenic vehicles moved dilatory done the water.

People are shown wading done flooded streets to bargain nutrient connected Monday successful Hue, Vietnam, arsenic rains and storms up of Typhoon Kalmaegi near astatine slightest 35 radical dead. (Thanh Hue/Getty Images)

Vietnam's aviation authorities said operations astatine 8 airports, including the planetary airdrome successful Da Nang, are apt to beryllium affected. Airlines and section authorities person been urged to intimately show the storm's advancement to guarantee rider safety.

Vietnam's past municipality of Hoi An and the adjacent metropolis of Hue were already successful betterment mode aft flooding that began astatine the extremity of past week, sidesplitting astatine slightest 35 people.

State of exigency declared successful Philippines

In the Philippines, the typhoon's onslaught affected astir 2 cardinal radical and displaced much than 560,000 villagers, including astir 450,000 who were evacuated to exigency shelters, the Office of Civil Defence said. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a authorities of exigency for the state connected Thursday.

In the Philippines' hardest-hit state of Cebu, the standard of the demolition became clearer arsenic floodwaters receded to uncover flattened homes, overturned vehicles and streets choked with debris.

More than 200,000 radical were evacuated successful the Philippines up of Kalmaegi hitting connected Tuesday.

Some radical successful Cebu returned to find their homes destroyed connected Thursday, portion others started the arduous cleanup, scraping mud from their houses and streets.

"The situation present is debris clearing.… These request to beryllium cleared immediately, not lone to relationship for the missing who whitethorn beryllium among the debris oregon whitethorn person reached harmless areas but besides to let alleviation operations to determination forward," Raffy Alejandro, a elder civilian defence official, told DZBB radio.

WATCH | Cebu residents instrumentality to scenes of devastation:

"Everything was destroyed. Only the flooring remained. Everything was washed out. We person nary belongings," said Liza Becus arsenic she returned to what was near of the shack she had built successful Talisay City successful Cebu.

She gathered metallic and robust sheets to merchantability truthful she could bargain atom to provender her 7 children.

"My children person nothing," she said. "Their uniforms, bags, and each of our things are gone."

Rescuers transportation a nonmigratory past cars washed distant by floods astatine the tallness of Typhoon Kalmaegi astatine a subdivision of Cebu City successful the cardinal Philippines connected Tuesday. (Alan Tangcawan/AFP/Getty Images)

Even arsenic Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, exited the Philippine monitoring zone, upwind forecasters were tracking a brewing tempest eastbound of Mindanao that could fortify into a typhoon, raising concerns for imaginable impacts aboriginal adjacent week.

The devastation from Kalmaegi, the 20th tempest to deed the Philippines this year, comes conscionable implicit a period aft a magnitude 6.9-earthquake struck bluish Cebu, sidesplitting dozens and displacing thousands.