ONDOY, whose inter- national code name is Ketsana, pounded Vietnam Tuesday, killing at least 23 people who drowned.

        Before the westward pillage, Ondoy on Saturday unleashed deadly flashfloods in Metro Manila and 22 other cities and provinces in central and southern Luzon bringing the death toll to as much as 246 and inundated as much as 2 million homes as of Wednesday.

        According to Associated Press report, some 170,000 people in Vietnam were evacuated.

        “The rivers are rising, and many homes are flooded, and several mountainous districts have been isolated by mudslides,” Nguyen Minh Tuan, a provincial disaster official in Vietnam was quoted as saying.

        The AP report said the storm weakened as it moved inland and approached Laos, but rivers were still rising and more rain was forecast for the region Wednesday.

        In the Philippines, thick, gooey mud lay in the streets in many places of Metro Manila, particularly Cainta and Marikina. Others were still under a foot or two of water. But the main downtown business and tourist district was largely unscathed, the same report said.

        Another storm, meanwhile, was headed toward the Philippines. Tropical Storm Parma was about 800 miles (1,280 kilometers) southeast of the Philippines late Tuesday, bringing the threat of more heavy rain, according to Pagasa, the government weather forecasting bureau.