According to the Thanh Hoa Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention, as of 3:30 p.m. on September 30, the province had 4 deaths, 1 missing person and 6 injured people due to floods.
People's evacuation work was urgently deployed, with 9,295 households (35,586 people) in 108 communes and wards having to be evacuated to safe places, of which more than 10,000 people live near the water's edge.
Floods caused 1,045 houses to be damaged, of which 20 houses completely collapsed; 8,850 houses were flooded, most concentrated in Nong Cong (3,200 houses), Kim Tan (1,617 houses), Tien Trang (2,000 houses). In addition, 50 auxiliary works were damaged.
Regarding agriculture, 4,652 hectares of rice, nearly 1,900 hectares of crops and more than 1,000 hectares of forestry and fruit trees were flooded and damaged. Nearly 9,000 poultry, 20 pigs, 3 buffaloes and cows and tens of thousands of frog were swept away. Many barns and beehives were also severely damaged.
There are 67 damaged schools, many medical stations and cultural houses in Truong Van commune, Nam Ngan ward are flooded or have their roofs blown off. The traffic system was also severely affected with 40 locations of national highways and 61 locations of provincial roads flooded, many landslides, and some bridges for people being washed away. In addition, 740m of canals, 2 reservoirs and many sections of dykes and water pipes were damaged.
Currently, local authorities and functional forces are urgently overcoming the incident, prioritizing rescue, protecting people's lives and property.
