The death toll from weeks of flooding and landslides in central Vietnam has risen to 111, with 22 people still missing, Reuters reported Wednesday.
“This catastrophic flood is the worst we’ve seen in decades,” Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu, president of the Vietnam Red Cross Society, said in a statement on Tuesday.
According to the state-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA), more than 7,500 hectares of food crops have been submerged and damaged, and more than 691,000 livestock and poultry have died or been flooded. According to the State Vietnam News Agency (VNA). Sixteen national highways in four provinces and 161,880 meters of local roads were also damaged.
The country is now heading for Vietnam after a tropical hurricane hit the Philippines, which has been flooded and forced to evacuate thousands of residents.
October is the rainy season in Vietnam, but the country has been particularly affected by the weak weather since the week that has affected agriculture, irrigation and transportation.
VNA Earlier this month, hurricanes and cold spells caused rains and flooding in central Vietnam’s cities and provinces. VNA The report states that more than 250,000 homes have been “submerged” in six provinces since the middle of October and many areas are 2 to 3 meters under water.
VNA Earlier this week, rescuers found 14 bodies of 22 soldiers missing after a landslide engulfed a military base.
The unusually cold temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean have caused particularly heavy rainfall throughout the region during the onset of La La Nina’s weather system.
Big humanitarian crisis
According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), hundreds of thousands of people in Vietnam are in urgent need of shelter, drinking water, food and income assistance due to the floods.
Red Cross disaster teams are working closely with local authorities to provide relief assistance.
“Houses, roads and infrastructure have sunk wherever we want,” Thu said. “We are doing our best to provide immediate relief to the people by boat, by air and on land, including food, safe water, tarpaulin and other essentials.”
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee is providing 20 billion Vietnamese dong (60,860,000) in aid to flood-affected families in five central provinces, the VNA reported. The IFRC has released approximately 32 325,000 to support Vietnam Red Cross relief activities.
According to Thuna, the floods “are already taking a toll on the livelihoods of millions of people due to the hardships caused by the Kovid-19 epidemic.”
Christopher Rossi, director general of the IRFC’s secretary general’s office, said in a statement on Tuesday that the floods “caused a double tragedy as Kovid-19 was causing problems.”
“This flood is the last straw and will push millions of people to the brink of poverty,” he said.
Isaac Yeh and Sandi Sidhu of CNN contributed to the report in Hong Kong. Reuters also contributed to the reporting.
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