At least five people were killed and
seven others missing in flash floods in northern Vietnam triggered by
heavy rains brought by Typhoon Nida, officials said on Friday.
Among the dead were three children in Lao Cai province whose house was washed away late Thursday in a flash flood, Dinh Trong Tai of the provincial flood and storm control committee said.
Flash floods damaged 140 houses in the area, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate, the committee said.
Typhoon Nida made landfall near Hong Kong on Tuesday before dissipating over China’s Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to Vietnam’s National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
The typhoon did not hit Vietnam directly but brought between 60 and
152 millimetres of rainfall to Lao Cai and other Northern areas.
Among the dead were three children in Lao Cai province whose house was washed away late Thursday in a flash flood, Dinh Trong Tai of the provincial flood and storm control committee said.
Flash floods damaged 140 houses in the area, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate, the committee said.
Typhoon Nida made landfall near Hong Kong on Tuesday before dissipating over China’s Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to Vietnam’s National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
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