Iran Press/Asia: Most of the fatalities of Typhoon Yagi happened in Vietnam with 197 confirmed dead. Also, eight people were confirmed dead in northern Thailand.
Swathe of northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, faced deadly landslides and widespread flooding.
The high waters have devastated over 250,000 hectares of crops and huge numbers of livestock in Vietnam.
A landslide in the mountainous Lao Cai province in Vietnam killed seven people and left 11 missing.
This comes in addition to a separate landslide in the same province that annihilated an entire village of 37 houses, killing at least 34 people with 46 still unaccounted for.
Heavy monsoon rains lash Southeast Asia every year, but human-made climate change is causing more intense weather patterns that can make destructive floods more likely.
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