HOI AN (VIETNAM): Typhoon Ketsana extended its destructive rampage through Southeast Asia on Wednesday, blowing away whole villages in Vietnam,
Cambodia and Laos as the regional death toll rose to 331.
Cambodia and Laos as the regional death toll rose to 331.
- Flood waters rose and mudslides buried houses in Vietnam while storm winds flattened houses in Cambodia on Wednesday as Typhoon Ketsana left a destructive path across Southeast Asia, killing at least 323 people.
- Vietnamese government officials said it could confirm that 66 people were killed during the storm, some by landslides and some by falling trees. Cambodian authorities put the death toll there at 11.
- Ketsana killed 246 people in the Philippines while still a weaker tropical storm, before strengthening over the South China Sea and smashing into Vietnam on Tuesday, leaving another 74 dead from flooding and landslides. It moved inland to lash Cambodia overnight, killing 11 more people, and caused meter-high floods in Laos on Wednesday.
Source: AP
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