Vietnam is preparing to evacuate half a million people in front of Typhon Kajiki | Climate crisis news
More than 16,500 soldiers and 107,000 paramilitary people were mobilized to help evacuation.
Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the coast of Vietnam against the Southern China Sea, with airports and closed schools while the authorities are preparing for Kajiki typhoon.
The Vietnamese government said on Monday that around 30,000 people had been evacuated from coastal areas. The authorities said on Sunday that more than half a million people would be evacuated and ordered the boats to stay in the port.
“This is an extremely dangerous fast storm,” the government said in a statement on Sunday evening, warning that Kajiki would bring heavy rains, floods and landslides.
More than 16,500 soldiers and 107,000 paramilitary people were mobilized to help evacuation and to stay in research and rescue, the government said in a statement.
The typhoon with winds up to 166 km / h (103 MPH) at sea is expected to touch the land on Monday afternoon, said the country’s meteorological agency. Typhon’s Warning Center said that the conditions suggested “an approached weakening trend as the system approaches the continental plateau in the Gulf of Tonkin where there are fewer ocean heat content”.
According to the civil aviation Authority of Vietnam. Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air have canceled dozens of flights to and since the region on Sunday and Monday.
The coastal provinces prohibited ships from going out at sea from Monday and called on those who have already left, said the Vietnam news agency.
Vietnam is subject to storms that are often fatal and trigger dangerous floods and mudslides. More than 100 people were killed or disappeared due to natural disasters during the first seven months of 2025, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Last year, Typhoon Yagi killed around 300 people and caused material damage of around $ 3.3 billion.
‘A little frightened’
The city of the Vinh seafront was whispered during the night, its streets largely deserted by the morning with most of the closed shops and restaurants while residents and business owners have sandpit.
“I have never heard of a typhoon of this large scale to come in our city,” said Manh Tung, 66, in the city of Vinh, to the AFP news agency. He takes shelter alongside other families evacuated in an inner stage.
“I’m a little afraid, but we have to accept it because it is nature – we can do nothing.”
The houses run the risk of collapsing from the storm, and even high-rise buildings could undergo serious damage, said Vice-Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, reported the official news agency in Vietnam.
The storm should move inside the land through Laos and northern Thailand.
Kajiki struck the southern coast of the Chinese island of Hainan on Sunday as she was heading for Vietnam. About 20,000 residents were evacuated from the Chinese province, which downgraded its alerts of typhoon and emergency intervention on Monday morning.
But the authorities warned against heavy rains and isolated storms in the cities in the south of the province.
