Two people died, thousands of houses were blown away by the storm

Hurricane Pakhar landed on the mainland, killing two people in Dong Nai and Ninh Thuan. In Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Binh Duong ., the storm devastated thousands of houses, hundreds of green trees fell .

In the morning of April 2, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee had a meeting with the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Rescue to assess the damage caused by the storm in the area and the direction to overcome. City leaders evaluated, due to active prevention, the damage caused by storms was negligible.

Storms with strong winds and tornadoes caused hundreds of trees in HCMC to fall. (Photo: HC)

Preliminary statistics of the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Search for City, storm Pakhar made nearly 500 houses in Ho Chi Minh City collapsed and sped up, more than 400 trees fell, 11 boats were sunk, 85 power line systems were damaged, 8 flood points with depths from 30 to 50 cm including: Huynh Tan Phat (district 7), Hoa Binh, Au Co (Tan Phu), Bau Cat, Dong Den (Tan Binh), Provincial road 43 (Thu Duc), Do Xuan Hop (district 9), Nguyen Van Qua (district 12).

In the center of the city, many old trees are obstructing traffic on roads such as Hai Ba Trung, Le Duan, Dong Du, Nam Ky Khoi Nghia . There are cases of green trees on people's houses, taxis . but very May not cause damage to people. Green trees poured into power lines, crushing nearly 20 electric posts, causing more than 137 areas to lose power until 3 am.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Huynh Anh, deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City's green park, said that in the central areas such as 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 . storm Pakhar has knocked 227 trees, nearly 70 broken branches . Even in the evening of April 1, more than 200 employees went to different areas, coordinating with units to implement troubleshooting. At present, the green park company still receives information from people about the tree incident to promptly handle.

According to Mr. Doan Thanh Diep, Chief of the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control in Can Gio District, until 10 am April 2, the district has more than 170 houses collapsed and speeded roof, 280 trees fell, 11 boats were sunk, one the boat drifted and broke two electric posts. These incidents occurred in the communes of Thanh An, Binh Khanh, An Thoi Dong and Tam Thon Hiep . The district People's Committee prepared to bring nearly 2,000 people of Thanh An island commune back to normal life.

According to PV's report, by noon April 2, many roads in the central area still have sprawling trees that have not been treated. Although throughout the night, Green Park Company Limited mobilized nearly 300 people to clean up and handle, but due to too many fallen trees, it is still not able to clean up.

Due to the damage caused by the storm, Mr. Le Minh Tri, Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, asked the units to concentrate all resources to help people overcome the consequences, soon stabilize their lives; review all damage to houses for reasonable support. Mr. Tri requested the flood and storm control committee of the districts to equip facilities to always be in a ready position when there was a bad situation.

By noon April 2, many roads were still sprawled after the storm passed. (Photo: HC)

In Dong Nai , according to the Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control, at 7 am the storm caused one person to die due to electric shock when climbing to the roof of the house with the roof and 5 people injured. In addition, in the thunderstorm nearly 700 houses have been roofed, collapsed 19 other houses. In the face of heavy losses caused by storms, local authorities mobilized 1,000 self-defense militia to help people overcome.

In Ba Ria - Vung Tau there are no statistics on damage. However, according to initial information, Xuyen Moc district is the area with the worst damage with more than 500 houses being roofed, 40 houses completely collapsed, 10 small boats sunk and 15 ha of damaged crops. harm.

In Binh Duong , according to incomplete statistics of the Provincial Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control, storms with heavy rain, tornadoes have caused roof collapse of dozens of houses, many other rubber trees of the people are broken. parked, hundreds of corners of mangosteen were angled.

Previously, on March 31 due to the impact of storms, 230 houses in Long An province were roofed and 28 houses collapsed completely causing hundreds of millions of VND. The provincial government also supported each household to have their house destroyed by VND 5 million to repair their houses and stabilize their lives.

A house with storms collapsed in Binh Duong. (Photo: Tue Man)

Appearing early in March, it again landed in the southern delta region, Parkhar was the "abnormal" storm. In the past 30 years, only one storm landed in Vietnam during this period. The path of the early storms often points to the North and gradually moves southward at the end of the rainy season. It is predicted that in 2012 there will be 6-7 storms and tropical depressions operating on the East Sea, more than average for many years.