The death toll in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam climbed to 233 on Friday as rescue workers recovered more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods, state media reported.

Flood waters from the swollen Red River in the capital of Hanoi were beginning to recede, but many neighborhoods remained inundated and farther north, experts were predicting it could still be days before any relief is in sight.

HANOI FLOODED BY SWOLLEN RIVER AS TYPHOON YAGI LEAVES 179 DEAD

Typhoon Yagi made landfall Saturday, setting off heavy rains that have triggered flash floods and landslides, particularly in Vietnam's mountainous north. Across the country, 103 people are still missing and more than 800 have been injured.

In a village on the outskirts of Hanoi, Nguyen Thi Loan returned to the home that she'd hastily fled on Monday as the floodwaters rose. Much of A Lac village was still underwater, and as she surveyed the damage, she wondered how she and others would manage.

"The flood has made our lives so difficult," she said. "Our rice crop has been destroyed and at home the electrical appliances like the washing machine, TV and fridge are underwater."

Most fatalities have come in the province of Lao Cai, where a flash flood swept away the entire hamlet of Lang Nu on Tuesday. Eight villagers turned up safe on Friday morning, telling others that they had left before the deluge, state-run VNExpress newspaper said. However, 48 others from Lang Nu have been found dead, and another 39 remain missing.

Roads to Lang Nu have been badly damaged, making it impossible to bring in heavy equipment to aid in the rescue effort.

Some 500 personnel with sniffer dogs are on hand, and on a visit to the scene on Thursday, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh promised they would not relent in their search for those still missing.

"Their families are in agony," Chinh said.

Coffins were stacked near the disaster site in preparation for the worst, and villager Tran Thi Ngan mourned at a makeshift altar for family members she had lost.

"It's a disaster," she told VTV news. "That's the fate we have to accept."

In Cao Bang, another northern province bordering China, 21 bodies had been recovered by Friday, four days after a landslide pushed a bus, a car and several motorcycles into a small river, swollen with floodwaters. Ten more people remain missing.

Experts say storms like Typhoon Yagi are getting stronger due to climate change, as warmer ocean waters provide more energy to fuel them, leading to higher winds and heavier rainfall.

The effects of the typhoon, the strongest to hit Vietnam in decades, were also being felt across the region, with flooding and landslides in northern Thailand, Laos and northeastern Myanmar.

In Thailand, 10 deaths have been reported due to flooding or landslides, and Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra flew to the north on Friday to visit the border town of Mae Sai. Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation warned of a continuing risk of flash floods in multiple areas through next Wednesday, as new rain was expected to increase the Mekong River's levels further.

In Myanmar, the army said Friday that at least 33 people have died across the country since Wednesday. It said 187 relief camps have been established for nearly 240,000 flood victims from 34 townships.

There are fears the death toll may rise sharply as local news outlets reported dozens missing in floods and landslides in the central regions of Mandalay and Bago, as well as eastern Shan State and the country's capital, Naypyitaw.

International aid has been flowing into Vietnam in the aftermath of Yagi, with Australia already delivering humanitarian supplies as part of $2 million in assistance.

South Korea has also pledged $2 million in aid, and the U.S. Embassy said Friday it would provide $1 million in support through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

"With more heavy rain forecast in the coming days, USAID’s disaster experts continue to monitor humanitarian needs in close coordination with local emergency authorities and partners on the ground," the embassy said in a statement. "USAID humanitarian experts on the ground are participating in ongoing assessments to ensure U.S. assistance rapidly reaches populations in need."

The typhoon and ensuing heavy rains have damaged factories in northern provinces like Haiphong, home to electric car company VinFast, Apple parts suppliers and other electronic manufacturers, which could affect international supply chains, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a research note.

The center said 95% of businesses in Haiphong were to resume some activity on Sept. 10 but that "repair efforts will likely lower output for the next weeks and months."

Two IRS agents who blew the whistle on the political interference into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against an attorney for the president’s son late Friday, accusing him of behaving with "clear malice." 

IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler accuse attorney Abbe Lowell of retaliating against them for their efforts in exposing the kid glove treatment Hunter Biden was receiving in regard to his non-payment of taxes. 

The lawsuit, filed in D.C. court, states that the pair are bringing the case to "vindicate their reputations for the incredible and malicious harm they have suffered."

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Shapley and Ziegler claim that as whistleblowers, they acted "with honor and integrity in exposing conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, and political motivations that they reasonably believed were interfering with the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden."

They claim that they acted in accordance with statute and that Lowell "falsely and maliciously" accused them of committing crimes, "namely, the illegal disclosure of grand jury materials and taxpayer return information — despite the fact that they never publicly discussed return[ing] information that was not already public."

"Lowell’s malicious and false allegations, including accusations that Shapley and Ziegler ‘committed felonies’ and ‘violated the law,’ were published to third parties, including the media, and have severely harmed their professional and personal reputations," the complaint states. 

Among the instances cited in the lawsuit is a Sept. 14, 2023, letter that Lowell sent to several congressional committees in which the pair say Lowell falsely accused them of violating grand jury secrecy rules and the taxpayer confidentiality statute.

"This was an act designed to harm Shapley and Ziegler by republishing the entire package of previous defamatory falsehoods in a larger forum," the complaint states. 

The whistleblowers also accuse Lowell of releasing Biden's legal team’s communications to the media that day, which included an April 21, 2023, letter written by another Biden attorney to the Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General’s Office accusing one or both of the whistleblowers of leaking information to the press revealing that an investigation was taking place, apparently in violation of federal law.

The complaint states that in December 2020, Hunter Biden had already publicly disclosed that he was the subject of a criminal tax investigation.

Furthermore, the whistleblowers accuse Lowell of releasing a letter to Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, which "falsely stated that Shapley and Ziegler had disseminated ‘grand jury and taxpayer information, including through multiple nationally-televised on-camera interviews of [Shapley],’ which it called a ‘clear-cut’ crime unprotected by any whistleblower statute or other federal law.’"

They are each suing Lowell for at least $10 million. 

Fox News Digital reached out to Lowell for comment via his law firm, Winston & Strawn LLP, but were unsuccessful. 

Shapley, who led the IRS’ portion of the Biden probe, and Ziegler, a 13-year special agent within the IRS’ Criminal Investigation Division, alleged political influence surrounding prosecutorial decisions throughout the Biden investigation, which began in 2018. 

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Hunter Biden previously secured a sweetheart deal with Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss, but it fell apart last year after Shapley and Ziegler went public with their concerns.

Shapley has said that decisions "at every stage" of the probe "had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation."

Additionally, Ziegler has said that Biden "should have been charged with a tax felony, and not only the tax misdemeanor charge," and that communications and text messages reviewed by investigators "may be a contradiction to what President Biden was saying about not being involved in Hunter’s overseas business dealings."

Ziegler also alleged that federal investigators "did not follow the ordinary process, slow-walked the investigation, and put in place unnecessary approvals and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case," including prosecutors blocking certain questioning and interviewing of Biden’s adult children.

Last week, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to nine tax charges as part of an "open plea" without negotiating a deal with prosecutors. An open plea is where a defendant pleads guilty to all the charges and leaves a judge to decide on sentencing, without an agreed-upon recommendation from prosecutors.

Weiss charged President Biden's son with three felonies and six misdemeanors concerning $1.4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid. Weiss alleged a pattern by which Hunter did not pay his federal income taxes while also filing false tax returns. 

In the indictment, Weiss alleged that Hunter "engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019, from in or about January 2017 through in or about October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020."

Hunter Biden faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison. He remains free on bond until the sentencing date of Dec. 16. 

Fox News’ Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.