Typhoon Kajiki forces more than 500,000 to evacuate in Vietnam Sarah NeweyAugust 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM People take shelter inside the Nghe An Provincial Gymnasium in the city of Vinh, Vietnam AFP Vietnam has ordered more than half a million people to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki barrels towards the coun...
- - Typhoon Kajiki forces more than 500,000 to evacuate in Vietnam
Sarah NeweyAugust 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
People take shelter inside the Nghe An Provincial Gymnasium in the city of Vinh, Vietnam - AFP
Vietnam has ordered more than half a million people to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki barrels towards the country with gales as strong as 100 miles per hour.
The storm skirted China's southern coast of Hainan Island late on Sunday, before racing towards Vietnam – where the memory of Typhoon Yagi, a devastating storm that killed at least 300 people last year, looms large.
The latest typhoon is due to hit at around 1pm local time on Monday (7am BST) and state media said 586,000 people in the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang have been ordered to leave their homes as the country braces for impact.
Flights have also been grounded, boats banned from leaving the harbour, and troops deployed to assist with relief operations.
AFP reported that the streets in waterfront cities were largely deserted on Monday morning, with homes and businesses surrounded by sandbags.
"The situation is extremely dangerous and not safe for any vehicles or structures such as tourism or fishing vessels and aquaculture raising facilities," an official from the ministry of agriculture and environment told the news agency.
The entrance of a car dealership is seen reinforced by sandbags and bamboo stakes in the city of Vinh - AFP
In China, more than 20,000 people evacuated the popular tropical resort destination Hainan Island at the weekend, which was pounded by strong winds and heavy rain as the typhoon travelled over the nearby ocean.
But Vietnam is set to be hit directly by Typhoon Kajiki – which will be the fifth typhoon to strike the south-east Asian country so far this year.
The agricultural ministry has said that between January and July 2025, more than 100 people were killed or went missing due to national disasters – causing $21 million (£15m) of damages.
Typhoon Kajiki has caused trees to uproot in Sanya, China - Visual China Group
Scientists said warming temperatures were fuelling more extreme and unpredictable weather patterns in the region, which is on the forefront of climate change.
According to a report in June from the World Meteorological Organization, Asia's oceans are warming at rates nearly double the global average.
The latest storm has drawn comparisons to September 2024, when Typhoon Yagi wrought chaos across southeast Asia – killing at least 600 people in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines and Laos.
Northern Vietnam was then the worst hit, accounting for roughly half of known deaths. In all, the storm caused some $3.3 billion (£2.4bn) of damages.
This time, there are hopes that Typhoon Kajiki may weaken slightly as it hits land due to upwelling of cooler deep ocean waters to the sea surface, according to the US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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