Typhoon Yagi destroys entire villages and leaves 233 dead in Vietnam

An entire village in Lao Cai was buried by a landslide and 48 bodies have already been recovered, but 39 people are still missing, the state-run newspaper VNExpress reported.

“Their families are in great pain,” Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said after visiting the scene in Lang Nu on Thursday.

Rescue efforts were hampered by severe damage to roads, but coffins were stacked near the crash site in preparation for the worst.

“It’s a disaster,” Tran Thi Ngan, a villager from Lang Nu, told VTV News as she mourned her lost family members at a makeshift altar. “This is the fate we have to accept.”

Typhoon Yagi’s massive flooding also destroyed more than 250,000 hectares of farmland and damaged factories in provinces such as Haiphong, which have plants that supply Apple and other electronics manufacturers.