A decade-old picture of a Philippine city flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely portrayed it as showing the damage caused by Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam.

Typhoon Yagi claimed the lives of 21 people in Vietnam while killing four people on the southern Chinese island of Hainan and 20 in the Philippines.

In Vietnam, nine people died when the typhoon made landfall Saturday, and at least 55 others have died during the floods and landslides that followed.

It caused high-rise buildings to shake, windows to smash, trucks to overturn, and trees falling and homes collapsing

Super Typhoon Yagi makes landfall in Vietnam, uprooting thousands of trees, sweeping ships and boats out to sea.

Asia's most powerful storm this year made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, killing at least four people after tearing through China's island of Hainan and the Philippines.

Yagi triggered landslides and widespread flooding in the Philippines earlier in the week before striking north Vietnam on Saturday.

Witnesses describe strong winds smashing windows, tearing away roofs, and uprooting trees. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Asia's most powerful storm this year made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, killing at least four people after tearing through China's island of Hainan and the Philippines.

Vietnam is preparing for more flooding with a tropical depression forecast to strengthen into a storm as it heads to its central coast, days after typhoon Yagi set off floods and landslides that killed more than 290 people in the north.