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Vietnam: More than 100 people have died and another 20 are missing in central Vietnam after weeks of severe flooding and landslides, authorities said Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, as the country braced for another storm this weekend. of week.
Some 178,000 homes have been submerged by the floods, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and rescuers have made a desperate attempt to bring food and clean water to the isolated people.
Roads, infrastructure and crops in the central region have also been devastated by flooding, the charity added, warning that hundreds of thousands would need housing and income support in the coming weeks.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Thu of the Vietnam Red Cross said the floods are “some of the worst we have seen in decades.”
At least 111 people have died, the disaster management authority said, while nearly 200,000 have been evacuated.
Among the dead are 22 soldiers who were involved in a large landslide Sunday in Quang Tri province, and 13 members of a rescue team who had tried to save workers at a hydroelectric plant.
A search team is still trying to find 15 of the missing plant workers, who were also caught in a landslide.
Although flooding has started to recede in some areas, images in state media showed still submerged villages in the region and a severely flooded hospital in Quang Binh, with water pooling around their beds.
More rain is forecast to hit the area over the weekend when Storm Saudel blows from the South China Sea.
Vietnam is frequently hit by severe weather in the rainy season between June and November, with the central coast provinces being the worst affected areas.
More than 130 people died or were missing in natural disasters across the country last year, the General Statistics Office said.
Cambodia has also suffered severe flooding in recent weeks.
The death toll rose to 34 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said, with more than 400,000 people affected.
The northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey has experienced its worst flooding in 70 years, he added.
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