Typhoon Yagi kills at least 110 in Myanmar

Rescuers in Myanmar said Friday floods and landslides set off by Typhoon Yagi had killed at least 110 people, as the death toll from the storm kept rising across Southeast Asia, days after it struck the region with powerful winds and rain.

Yagi, which slammed into the Philippines and southern China last week, made landfall in Vietnam on Saturday as a super typhoon, the strongest to hit the nation in decades. The storm dissipated over the next few days but left a trail of destruction in northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, killing nearly 300 people.

Many residents in Myanmar, a nation torn by a civil war, said they were unable to prepare for the storm's expected arrival because of the lack of advance alerts about the risk of severe weather.

Myanmar's junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war. Myanmar's army commander, Gen Min Aung Hlaing, told officials to request foreign aid for relief and rescue efforts, The Global New Light of Myanmar, a state-owned newspaper, said Saturday.

In Myanmar, over 235,000 people have been forced from their homes by floods, the junta said Friday. Agencies