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Nearly 40 people were killed in Vietnam and Cambodia and many more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rains and flash flooding as Tropical Storm Nangka moved towards the Vietnamese coast on Tuesday.
Heavy rains since early October have caused deadly floods and landslides in several provinces in central Vietnam and displaced thousands of people in western Cambodia, officials and state media said.
Flooding is expected to worsen in the coming days, and Tropical Storm Nangka is forecast to shed more rain when it makes landfall in Vietnam on Wednesday.
Nangka, with wind speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour), will cause heavy rain of up to 400 millimeters (16 inches) in parts of northern and central Vietnam from Wednesday to Friday, its weather agency said.
Continued flooding has killed at least 28 people in Vietnam and 11 in Cambodia, where nearly 25,000 houses and 84,000 hectares of crops have been damaged, according to local media.
Vietnamese disaster management authorities said more than 130,000 houses have been affected.
Seventeen construction workers went missing after a landslide at the site of a hydroelectric dam project in the central Vietnamese province of Thua Thien Hue, state media reported.
Another 13 people sent to rescue the workers are also missing, the state newspaper Nhan Dan reported Tuesday.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has instructed the defense ministry to send more rescue troops to the site of the landslide, according to a government statement.
As of Tuesday morning, they were unable to reach the site, the statement added, due to high water levels, heavy rains and additional landslides.
