Week-long flooding in Vietnam kills 67, officials say
HANOI, Vietnam - Disaster officials say the death toll from floods that have battered central Vietnam over the last week is up to 67.
Seven more bodies were recovered Monday, bringing the death toll from weekend flooding to 40. Those floods were the second to hit the area in just one week. The first round of flooding killed 27 people.
Eight people were still missing and hundreds of thousands of people were still living in flooded neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, a violent storm is baring down on the region.
Tropical Storm Peipah is gathering strength and has now been upgraded to a typhoon with winds of up to 133 kilometres per hour.
Authorities distributed more than 907 tonnes of rice to flood victims, but local officials said they needed 4,989 tonnes more, the Flood and Storm Control Department said in a report Tuesday.
The typhoon is expected to unleash heavy rains that will lash central Vietnam later this week.
Vietnam is prone to floods and storms, which kill hundreds of people each year.
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Oh, not good.
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