Floods either killed or left 53 people missing in Vietnam's central and central highlands region as of Wednesday night, local media reported Thursday.
The natural disaster, which has happened since last weekend, killed or left 19 missing in Dac Lac, six in Lam Dong, one in Gia Lai, one in Dac Nong (in the central highlands region), 15 in Ha Tinh, seven in Quang Binh, three in Nghe An and one in Phu Yen (in the central region), said Youth newspaper.
In Ha Tinh alone, the flooding caused by a tropical storm claimed 14 lives, left one missing, injured five others, inundated nearly 16,000 houses and roughly 20,000 hectares of rice and other crops, and swept away 66 bridges, causing a total estimated property loss of 219 billion Vietnamese dong (13.7 billion U.S. dollars), according to Pioneer newspaper.
Natural disasters, including storms, hails and landslides in Vietnam killed or left 22 local people missing, and injured 119 others in the first half of this year, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
Source: Xinhua
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