Heavy rains after weeks of drought turned the streets of the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi into rivers up to half a metre deep on Tuesday.
A heavy downpour that lasted for more than two hours forced motorbike commuters to push their machines through the dirty water as trees were brought down from the powerful storm.
Police said on state radio that scores of locations in the city of several million people were flooded or snarled by traffic jams.
A meteorologist said the city centre was the hardest hit, with about 120 millimetres (4.7 inches) of rain falling during the rush-hour period.
Hanoi had been suffering from a drought for weeks which meteorologists said was the worst in decades.
It worsened power shortages and led to blackouts in the country, which gets more than one-third of its electricity from hydropower.
Belows are photos that DTiNews\' reporters took of flooded areas in Hanoi:
Rain began around 6am and became extreme by 7am
Local businesses become isolated islands
Wading through high waters to get to work
Soaked is the only option for commuters
Virtually impossible to find a taxi
Braving the heavy rain and floods
Streets become rivers
Many have to push their engine-stalled motorbikes
Kim Lien resembles a deep river instead of a tunnel
A bus stalls in Kim Lien Tunnel
