US EditionDeath toll from Vietnam floods, landslides climbs to 90
At least 91 dead and thousands displaced in central Vietnam floods, with over 1.1 million homes affected and damages near $500 million, officials report ongoing relief efforts.
- On Monday, heavy rains across Southeast Asia caused widespread flooding and landslides, with Vietnam reporting 91 confirmed dead and 11 missing, while southern provinces in Thailand saw five killed and four injured.
- Following storms earlier this month, meteorological agencies warned a new tropical depression was forming, and rains are expected to continue through Tuesday.
- Hat Yai, Songkhla province recorded 335 millimeters and 630 millimeters , complicating evacuation as helicopters dropped food and lifeboats rescued stranded residents.
- Malaysia evacuated more than 12,500 people across nine states and opened 86 temporary shelters as rainfall is expected to worsen, while the International Organization for Migration announced South Korea will contribute $1 million to help Vietnam.
- The United Nations agency said preliminary data show Vietnam estimates economic damage of some $1.2 billion with more than a half million homes damaged and hundreds of thousands evacuated, while scientists warn a warming climate is intensifying storms across Southeast Asia.
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Death toll climbs in Southeast Asia as heavy rains cause floods and landslides
Heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides in Southeast Asia. On Monday, officials reported one more death in Vietnam and five in Thailand. Vietnam's death toll is now 91, with 11 missing. The flooding has affected a 500-mile stretch,…
Death toll rises as heavy rains trigger floods and landslides in Southeast Asia
The death toll in widespread flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Southeast Asia mounted on Monday with another person reported killed in Vietnam, and five others in Thailand with tens of thousands of people displaced.
Vietnam’s Year of Floods, Mud and Death
Central Vietnam has become the latest epicenter of a deadly rainy season in Asia that has been supercharged by climate change, and seems to drag on without end. More than 90 people in the nation have been killed in the past week from flooding and landslides, and around a dozen more are missing, government officials reported Sunday. In one province, more than six feet of rain has fallen over the past few days. Peak coffee harvesting has been dela…
Death toll climbs in Southeast Asia as heavy rains cause floods and landslides
The death toll in widespread flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Southeast Asia mounted on Monday with another person reported killed in Vietnam, and five others in Thailand with tens of thousands of people displaced.
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