The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi has risen to 143, with dozens more missing, the government said on Wednesday, as relentless rain continued to cause landslides in small villages and flooding in the capital of Hanoi.
Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit Vietnam in decades. It arrived on Saturday, tearing through the country's north with 90 mph winds. Even as the storm's strength has diminished, downpours have continued, drowning one of the most densely populated river valleys in Southeast Asia.
As the Red River was rising by nearly four inches every hour, it caused alarm about Vietnam's vulnerability to extreme storms brought on by climate change, leading to both factories shutting down and schools advising families to keep children at home.
A landslide had smothered a hamlet of 158 people in the mountainous province of Lao Cai. Search and rescue teams have recovered 22 dead bodies from the scene, marking the most deadly landslide caused by the typhoon so far.
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