‘Like a horror movie’:powerful typhoon hits tourist hot spots,several dead,hundreds injured

‘Like a horror movie’:powerful typhoon hits tourist hot spots,several dead,hundreds injured

Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured dozens of others in Vietnam after making landfall near Ha Long Bay. Hundreds of planes were grounded in Hong Kong and Hanoi.

  • byZen Soo andAniruddha Ghosal

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