Tens of millions of individuals throughout Southeast Asia struggled Thursday with flooded properties, energy cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Hurricane Yagi swept by the area, because the dying toll handed 200.
In worst-hit Vietnam, the fatalities rose to 197, with 9 confirmed useless in northern Thailand — the place one district is struggling its worst floods in 80 years.
Yagi smashed into Vietnam on the weekend, bringing a colossal deluge of rain that has inundated a swathe of northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, triggering lethal landslides and widespread river flooding.