A bridge col­lapsed and a bus was swept away by flood­ing Mon­day as more rain fell fol­low­ing a ty­phoon Viet­nam that has caused at least 59 deaths in the South­east Asian coun­try and dis­rupt­ed busi­ness­es and fac­to­ries in the ex­port-fo­cused north­ern in­dus­tri­al hubs, state me­dia re­port­ed.

Nine peo­ple died when Ty­phoon Ya­gi made land­fall in Viet­nam on Sat­ur­day be­fore weak­en­ing to a trop­i­cal de­pres­sion, and at least 50 oth­ers have died in the con­se­quent floods and land­slides, state me­dia VN Ex­press re­port­ed. The wa­ter lev­els of sev­er­al rivers in north­ern Viet­nam were dan­ger­ous­ly high.

A pas­sen­ger bus car­ry­ing 20 peo­ple was swept in­to a flood­ed stream by a land­slide in moun­tain­ous Cao Bang province Mon­day morn­ing. Res­cuers were de­ployed but land­slides blocked their path.

In Phu Tho province, res­cue op­er­a­tions were con­tin­u­ing af­ter a steel bridge over the en­gorged Red Riv­er col­lapsed Mon­day morn­ing. Re­ports said 10 cars and trucks along with two mo­tor­bikes fell in­to the riv­er. Three peo­ple were pulled out of the riv­er and tak­en to the hos­pi­tal, but 13 oth­ers were miss­ing.

Pham Truong Son, 50, told VN­Ex­press that he was dri­ving on the bridge on his mo­tor­cy­cle when he heard a loud noise. Be­fore he knew what was hap­pen­ing, he was falling in­to the riv­er. “I felt like I was drowned to the bot­tom of the riv­er,” Son told the news­pa­per, adding that he man­aged to swim and hold on to a drift­ing ba­nana tree to stay afloat be­fore he was res­cued.

Dozens of busi­ness­es in Haiphong province hadn’t re­sumed pro­duc­tion by Mon­day be­cause of the ex­ten­sive dam­age to their fac­to­ries, re­port­ed state me­dia Lao Dong news­pa­per. The re­port said that the roofs of sev­er­al fac­to­ries were blown apart while wa­ter had seeped in­to in­dus­tri­al units, dam­ag­ing fin­ished goods and ex­pen­sive equip­ment. Some com­pa­nies said they still didn’t have elec­tric­i­ty on Mon­day and that it would take at least a month to be able to re­sume pro­duc­tion.

Top­pled elec­tric­i­ty poles meant that Haiphong and Quang Ninh provinces were still with­out pow­er on Mon­day. The two provinces are in­dus­tri­al hubs, hous­ing many fac­to­ries that ex­port goods, in­clud­ing EV mak­er Vin­Fast and Ap­ple sup­pli­ers Pe­ga­trong and USI. Au­thor­i­ties are still as­sess­ing the dam­age to in­dus­tri­al units but ini­tial es­ti­mates show that near­ly 100 en­ter­pris­es were dam­aged by the ty­phoon, re­sult­ing in loss­es amount­ing to mil­lions of dol­lars, re­port­ed the news­pa­per.

Prime Min­is­ter Pham Minh Chinh vis­it­ed Haiphong city on Sun­day and ap­proved a pack­age of $4.62 mil­lion to help the port city re­cov­er.

Ty­phoon Ya­gi was the strongest ty­phoon to hit Viet­nam in decades when it made land­fall Sat­ur­day with winds up to 149 kph (92 mph). It weak­ened Sun­day, but the coun­try’s me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal agency warned the con­tin­u­ing down­pours could cause floods and land­slides.

On Sun­day, a land­slide killed six peo­ple in­clud­ing an in­fant and in­jured nine oth­ers in Sa Pa town, a pop­u­lar trekking base known for its ter­raced rice fields and moun­tains. Over­all, state me­dia re­port­ed 21 deaths and at least 299 peo­ple in­jured from the week­end.

Skies were over­cast in the cap­i­tal, Hanoi, with oc­ca­sion­al rain Mon­day morn­ing as work­ers cleared the up­root­ed trees, fall­en bill­boards and top­pled elec­tric­i­ty poles. Heavy rain con­tin­ued in north­west­ern Viet­nam and fore­cast­ers said it could ex­ceed 40 cen­time­tres (15 inch­es) in places.

Ya­gi al­so dam­aged agri­cul­tur­al land where rice is most­ly grown.

Be­fore hit­ting Viet­nam, Ya­gi caused at least 20 deaths in the Philip­pines last week and four deaths in south­ern Chi­na.

Chi­nese au­thor­i­ties said in­fra­struc­ture loss­es across the Hainan is­land province amount­ed to $102 mil­lion with 57,000 hous­es col­lapsed or dam­aged, pow­er and wa­ter out­ages and roads dam­aged or im­pass­able due to fall­en trees. Ya­gi made a sec­ond land­fall in Guang­dong, a main­land province neigh­bour­ing Hainan, on Fri­day night.

Storms like Ty­phoon Ya­gi are “get­ting stronger due to cli­mate change, pri­mar­i­ly be­cause warmer ocean wa­ters pro­vide more en­er­gy to fu­el the storms, lead­ing to in­creased wind speeds and heav­ier rain­fall,” said Ben­jamin Hor­ton, di­rec­tor of the Earth Ob­ser­va­to­ry of Sin­ga­pore.

HANOI, Viet­nam (AP) —