Tropical storm deaths top 600 in Southeast Asia, over 4 million affected
Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand faced large-scale devastation after a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait fuelling heavy rains and wind gusts for a week. There were 435 dead in Indonesia, 170 in Thailand, and three deaths reported in Malaysia.
Over 4 million people have been affected - nearly 3 million in southern Thailand and 1.1 million in western Indonesia.