Typhoon Kajiki Hits Vietnam: Fatalities, Floods, Airport Closures and Evacuations

Typhoon Kajiki struck northern and central Vietnam on August 25, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain that left three people dead and at least ten injured. The storm foisted damage on homes, public structure, and agrarian areas before weakening as it moved into Laos.

In the immediate fate, Vietnamese authorities reported the destruction of further than 6,800 homes, flooding of 28,800 hectares of rice paddies and over 2,200 hectares of other crops, and the extracting of nearly 18,000 trees. The cyclone caused significant power outages by tripping further than 300 electricity poles, plunging the businesses of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thai Nguyen, and Phu Tho into darkness.

cataracts submersed the thoroughfares of Hanoi, causing dislocations to business and diurnal life. In expectation of the storm, officers initiated mass evacuations affecting further than 44,000 residers and mobilised around 16,000 military labor force to secure the affected regions. All fishing lines in the storm’s projected path were ordered to return to harbour as a safety measure.

Air transport and education systems also came to a halt. airfields in Thanh Hoa and Quang Binh were shut, forcing the cancellation of dozens of breakouts by carriers similar as Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet. seminaries closed across the affected businesses, impacting thousands of scholars. Original reports indicated wide business traffic as floodwaters stalled vehicles and submerged colorful megacity thoroughfares.

Meteorological agencies advised the public that heavy rains would persist, vaticinating up to 150 millimetres in six hours in certain areas, raising farther pitfalls of flash cataracts, mudslides, and landslides across the region. Authorities took exigency preparedness to situations unseen so far in 2025, planting coffers and issuing warnings ahead of landfall.

Vietnam’s long bank along the South China Sea makes it one of the most storm-prone countries in Southeast Asia. The government substantiated Typhoon Yagi, which struck lower than a time prior, killing around 300 people and causing an estimated$ 3.3 billion in damage, to stress the implicit scale of Kajiki's impact.

As of August 25, further than half a million people were anticipated to be vacated if conditions deteriorated, demonstrating the government’s commitment to visionary disaster operation. The storm's passage into Laos as a tropical depression gestured the end of its immediate trouble to Vietnam, but remittal and recovery are anticipated to be expansive.