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Floods kill 13, leave 3 missing in Vietnam
HANOI, Sept 3, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – Flash floods and landslides sparked by
heavy rain in Vietnam’s northern and central regions over the past few days
have killed 13 people and left three missing, the country’s Central Steering
Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Monday.
As of Monday morning, floods claimed nine lives and left three people
missing in central Thanh Hoa province. Meanwhile, floods and landslides
killed one person each of the four northern provinces of Hoa Binh, Yen Bai,
Son La and Lang Son.
The floods and landslides also destroyed 364 houses, damaged over 6,523
hectares of rice and other crops, killed 512 cattle and 56,367 fowls, and
damaged 963 hectares of aquaculture ponds, 620 meters of dykes and 6,174
meters of canals, said the committee.
Natural disasters, mostly typhoons, floods and landslides, killed or left
missing 153 people and injured 119 others, and caused property losses of over
7,000 billion Vietnamese dong (304.3 million U.S. dollars) in the first eight
months of this year, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development.
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