Asia's 'Most Powerful' Typhoon Yagi Kills Dozens In Vietnam. Wreaks Havoc In Philippines, China

Typhoon Yagi claimed the lives of 21 people in Vietnam while killing four people on the southern Chinese island of Hainan and 20 in the Philippines.

Typhoon Yagi wreaked havoc in Vietnam killing more than a dozen people.

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Typhoon Yagi wreaked havoc in Vietnam, the Philippines, and parts of China as Asia's "most powerful" storm this year. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression on Sunday after killing two dozen people across the three countries and heavily damaging properties while triggering landslides across Vietnam. 

As many as 21 people were killed while 229 were injured in Vietnam, as per preliminary government estimates, reported Reuters. Among the deceased was a family of four killed after heavy rain caused a hillside to collapse onto a house in the mountainous Hoa Binh province in northern Vietnam. 

Four people were killed on the southern Chinese island of Hainan while 20 were in the Philippines, the first country to be hit by the storm. 

Many people were killed in storm-related incidents in Vietnam since Friday as some were crushed by falling trees or drifting boats, said the defence ministry's disaster management agency. On Sunday, six people, including a newborn baby and a one-year-old boy were killed in a landslide in the Hoang Lien Son mountains of northwestern Vietnam, reported AFP. 

On Saturday the storm disrupted power supplies and telecommunications in the capital Hanoi and caused extensive flooding, felling thousands of trees and damaging homes. In the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong which hosts factories of several multinationals, industrial parks remained shut on Sunday, workers and managers told Reuters. 

"The damage to the factaories is really significant. Some have lost roofs or entire front facades," said Bruno Jaspaert, head of DEEP C industrial zones, which host plants from over 150 investors within the country. 

He said that while the industrial parks had not been flooded, at least 80 per cent of the factories had been damaged due to the storm. 

Following its landfall on Sunday, Typhoon Yagi triggered waves as high as four metres in coastal provinces prompting the weather department to warn about continued "risk of flash floods" in riverside areas, including Hanoi. 

Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport, the busiest in Vietnam was shut on Saturday morning and reopened on Sunday.