Typhoon Bualoi inflicts death, lasting floods on Vietnam

Lingering flooding from Typhoon Bualoi devastated homes, infrastructure and farmland across swaths of Vietnam on Tuesday, with the death toll rising to 26 and dozens more missing.

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General view after typhoon Bualoi's passage in Nghe An province on Monday. A corrugated iron roof blown off after typhoon Bualoi made a landfall in Nghe An province. Cua Lo beach damaged after the typhoon.

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Rainfall from the storm inundated the capital Hanoi, bringing large parts of the city to a standstill and rerouting dozens of flights.

Bualoi made landfall in central Vietnam late Sunday, packing winds of 130 kilometres (80 miles) per hour, and remained over land for almost 12 hours.

It arrived in Vietnam after battering parts of the Philippines, where 400,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes.

The death toll in the Philippines rose to 37 on Tuesday following the recovery of 10 additional bodies in the devastated central island of Masbate. Seven of the latest victims were crushed by falling trees, regional disaster officials said.