Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Typhoon Damrey killed 85 people in Vietnam, China, the Philippines and Thailand and caused widespread damage to property and crops before crossing over Laos as a tropical depression yesterday, Agence France-Presse said.

In Vietnam, at least 50 people were killed and six others were missing, including 44 who died in flash floods in the inland province of Yen Bai, about 200 kilometers (124 miles) northwest of Hanoi, AFP cited a provincial flood control official as saying. Crops, property and infrastructure such as roads, electricity and communications were severely damaged, AFP said.

Damrey, which made landfall in China's Hainan province on Sept. 26, killed 16 people on the island and caused an estimated 10 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in damage to property, roads and crops, AFP said late yesterday, citing state media.

The storm killed 16 people in the Philippines and three in Thailand, AFP reported, without saying where it obtained the information. Damrey was the 17th named storm of the Pacific typhoon season.

(Agence France-Presse, 9-29.)

To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Ahlstrand in Hong Kong at gahlstrand@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: September 28, 2005 22:06 EDT