Hanoi: The death toll from tropical storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has passed 122, with damage estimated at more USD 280 million, officials said on Sunday.
Two people were still missing, according to a new report by the national flood and storm control committee, which also
listed 145 injured.
The toll however did not include victims of a landslide which killed at least 13 people Thursday night in a province north of the region hardest-hit by Mirinae.
According to national statistics, Mirinae damaged or toppled more than 1,00,000 houses. Several hundred thousand acres of cultivated land was also damaged or submerged in the passage of the storm.
The priority was still "to supply disaster victims with
food, drinking water and to sort out problems related to
pollution of the environment," an official from the national
committee said today.
Mirinae weakened from a typhoon before it hit Vietnam
Monday, after killing at least 27 people in the Philippines.
The two nations are regularly hit by deadly storms and
floods. At the end of September, Typhoon Ketsana killed a
total of more than 500 people in the two countries.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, November 08, 2009, 16:08