Flooding in Vietnam's central region has killed 19 local people since last weekend, local newspaper Vietnam Agriculture reported Friday.

Binh Thuan province suffered the biggest human loss, with eight fatalities, followed by Nghe An with six, Quang Binh with two, and Dac Lac, Lam Dong and Quang Tri with one each. Most of the victims were drowned in floods.

The flooding also injured seven local people, and caused the total property loss of estimated 125.5 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (nearly 7.9 million U.S. dollars). In Dac Lac province alone, 2,911 hectares of rice, 1,604 hectares of maize, 293 hectares of cotton, 100 hectares of beans, and 55 aquaculture ponds were inundated, the paper said.

Besides the central region, the flooding hit the southeastern region, damaging tens of thousands of hectares of paddy rice and aquaculture ponds, many houses, schools, irrigation works and road sections, causing property losses of hundreds of billions of VND ( tens of millions of U.S. dollars).

Source: Xinhua