Hanoi: At least 13 people have been killed
in a landslide in central Vietnam following storms and
flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead, officials
said today.
The 13 were killed and another person was seriously
injured in the early hours yesterday in the coastal province
of Quang Nam, local emergency official Vo Xuan Quang told.
The landslide, triggered by rains that have lashed the
country since Tropical Storm Mirinae hit on Monday, dumped
thousands of tonnes of earth and mud on a group of gold
miners, who were sleeping at the time, Quang said.
The storm and flooding that followed have left another
116 people dead, most of them in the country's easternmost
province of Phu Yen.
Mirinae also killed two people in Vietnam's neighbour
Cambodia and left 27 people dead in the Philippines, where
thousands are still living in evacuation centres after a
series of deadly storms this typhoon season.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, November 07, 2009, 13:08