The photo appeared as typhoon Yagi ripped off Vietnam’s densely populated Red River Delta — a vital agricultural region that is also home to major manufacturing centers — damaging factories and infrastructure, and flooding farmland (archived link). Authorities said it killed at least 292 people in the country.
The storm also triggered worst floods in Myanmar’s recent history according to the UN World Food Program, with the country’s junta reporting 226 deaths (archived link).
The photo was shared with similar false claims on Facebook here, here and here.
A reverse image search on Google, however, found that it was published by The Associated Press (AP) news agency on November 10, 2013 (archived link).
The photo caption read in part: ‘A woman walks past damaged houses in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines, Sunday, November 10, 2013. The city remains littered with debris from damaged houses as ‘and many complain of lack of food, water and no electricity since typhoon Haiyan hit their province.’
Below is a screenshot comparison of the picture used in the fake posts (left) and the AP photo (right):
Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, unleashed tsunami-like waves that devastated central islands in the Philippines in November 2013, killing more than 6,000 people (archived link).
Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province, bore the brunt of the storm’s fury and was almost totally destroyed by the five-meter-high storm surge that crashed into impoverished coastal communities.
The AP photo was also published in other reports about Haiyan here and here (archived link here and here).
AFP has debunked other misinformation related to Typhoon Yagi here.