1 of 2 | A woman wades through the flood waters in a street of Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday. Typhoon Yagi has caused severe flooding in Hanoi and devastation across pats of Asia. EPA-EFE/LUONG THAI LINH.
At least 100 people are dead in Myanmar following flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi, officials said Sunday.
“Dam bursts, house collapses and mass flooding have wreaked havoc in the Asian nation, govt.,” Zaw Min Tun said in an audio statement on Friday and posted by RT India on X. Advertisement
Zaw said Sunday that 113 people had been confirmed dead, with an additional 64 missing.
Yagi is Asia’s most powerful storm this year, and has already walloped Vietnam, Laos, the Chinese island of Hainan and the Philippines. Officials said more than 280 people died as a result of the storm before it arrived in Myanmar.
Across the globe, five people are dead in Romania, a firefighter has been killed in a flood rescue in Austria, another has drowned in Poland, and several remain unaccounted for in the Czech Republic following torrential rain from Storm Boris continued, officials said Sunday.
The storm continues to ravage Central and Eastern Europe. in Poland, prime minister Donald Tusk declared a state of natural disaster. Advertisement
700 homes were flooded in Slobozia Conachi, a village in Romania’s south-eastern Galati region. “This is a catastrophe of epic proportions,” Mayor Emil Dragomir said.
In Vienna, trains and underground service have been disrupted, and at least one major traffic way has been closed. The storm situation had “worsened” and was “very serious” Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer wrote on X.
