At least four people died and two were listed missing after typhoon Mirinae hit Vietnam’s central coast on Monday morning, according to the latest statistics from the national agency of storm and flood control.

The storm damaged nearly 2,500 houses, sank 27 boats, and destroyed nearly 2,000 hectares of farms.

National carrier Vietnam Airlines was forced to postpone 34 flights from Ho Chi Minh City to the central and central highlands provinces on Monday night.

Before the storm, which left 14 dead and missing in the Philippines as it passed through the country’s capital Manila and the southern city of Luzon on Sunday, made its landfall in Vietnam, the provinces of Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, and Quang Ngai had evacuated more than 15,000 people to safer areas.

Although the storm weakened into a tropical low after the landfall, central provinces are still facing the risk of severe flooding, flash floods and landslides as waters rise in local rivers, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Provinces on the central coast had taken a severe beating late September by typhoon Ketsana, one of the worst storms to strike the country in 40 years, leaving 163 people dead, 11 missing, more than 600 injured and property loss of over VND14 trillion (US$785.85 million).

Reported by Thanh Nien staff