Overview

• Kajiki made landfall Monday between Nghe An and Ha Tinh with sustained winds around 133 km/h, bringing heavy rain and damaging gusts.
• Authorities report at least three deaths, 10 injuries, damage to more than 6,000 homes, and outages affecting over 1.3 million households, with streets in Hanoi inundated.
• Hundreds of thousands were told to evacuate to shelters, and more than 16,500 soldiers alongside over 100,000 aid workers were mobilized for rescue and relief.
• Airports in affected provinces closed with dozens of flights canceled, coastal shipping was halted, and boats were ordered back to port.
• After battering China’s Hainan, where over 100,000 people were affected, the storm weakened over Laos as regional forecasters warned of continued downpours and landslide risk, including alerts in Thailand.