53 killed or left missing by flooding in Vietnam
9/8/2007 16:52
Floods either killed or left 53 people missing in Vietnam's central and
central highlands region as of Wednesday night, local media reported
today.
The natural disaster, which has happened since last weekend, killed or
left 19 missing in Dac Lac, six in Lam Dong, one in Gia Lai, one in Dac Nong (in
the central highlands region), 15 in Ha Tinh, seven in Quang Binh, three in Nghe
An and one in Phu Yen (in the central region), said Youth newspaper.
In Ha
Tinh alone, the flooding caused by a tropical storm claimed 14 lives, left one
missing, injured five others, inundated nearly 16,000 houses and roughly 20,000
hectares of rice and other crops, and swept away 66 bridges, causing a total
estimated property loss of 219 billion Vietnamese dong (US$13.7 billion),
according to Pioneer newspaper.
Natural disasters, including storms, hails
and landslides in Vietnam killed or left 22 local people missing, and injured
119 others in the first half of this year, according to the country's General
Statistics Office.
xinhua
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