Flooding triggered by a tropical storm has killed at least 20 people and
left over a dozen missing in northern Vietnam, local media reports
said. Ten people drowned in floods caused by heavy rain in Yen Bai
province after Tropical Storm Son Tinh hit the country’s northern region
last week, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.
In Thanh Hoa province, a flash flood swept through a small village in
Lang Chanh district and carried away a dozen stilt houses on Thursday.
“The floods came so quick and gave us so little time to escape,” said
local resident Luong Van Hung. “Some managed to run to high ground, but
others got swept away in the floods.”
The floods took away a family of four as they were sleeping, said Nguyen
Xuan Hong, chairman of Lang Chanh district. Two people were found dead
in the debris left by the flooding while the body of the family’s
5-year-old daughter was recovered today morning in a stream 3 kilometers
(2 miles) from their home.
A rescue group of 300 people were looking for the fourth member of the
family, who is still missing, Hong said. Casualties were also reported
in Phu Tho, Lao Cai, Hoa Binh and Son La provinces, where heavy rain
caused landsides and cut off roads.
The rain stopped over the weekend, but the national weather forecast
agency said another tropical depression is heading toward northern
Vietnam this week. Vietnam is prone to destructive storms and floods
that kill hundreds of people every year.
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