At least 43 people have lost their lives and nine remain missing in Vietnam due to floods and landslides caused by the torrential rains that the country has accumulated since last weekend, authorities reported this Friday.
The majority of fatalities have been recorded in the southern provinces of Dak Lak and Khanh Hoa (30)which are, at the same time, the most affected by the floods, according to data from the Vietnamese Department of Disaster Prevention and Control released in the local morning.
In the central region of the country, the tourist imperial city of Hue, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has recorded two deaths, the same number of fatalities as those that have occurred in Da Nang, one of the main port towns in Vietnam.
The authorities have preventively evacuated more than 61,000 people of areas at risk from downpours.
The impact of the storm that has hit Vietnam in recent days has left damage estimated at more than three billion dong (about 98,970 euros or 113,820 US dollars), a figure that could vary, as local governments continue to review and evaluate the effect of the rains, official media reported.
Nearly 68,000 homes and more than 13,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops have been flooded.while 30,731 heads of livestock and poultry have died or been swept away by torrents of water, according to reports Efe.
The rains have subsided this Friday in a good part of the country, shows the Zoom.earth platform, after leaving accumulations of more than 1,500 millimeters of water in several parts of the south of the country for three days, said Disaster Prevention and Control.
Southeast Asia is experiencing an especially harsh season of tropical storms and typhoons this year.
This November, Typhoon Kalmaegi killed six people in central Vietnam after hitting the Philippines, leaving 250 dead and 111 missing.
In October, at least a dozen people died in the north of the country due to flooding caused by Typhoon Matmo, while Typhoon Kajiki left seven dead at the end of August.