From the big city of Bankok to small villages in rural Myanmar and Vietnam, the torrential rains have brought terrible flooding. A dam unable to hold back the waters has burst and flooded the valley of our chili project and wiped it out. See related story as posted on http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2011/11/09/death-toll-from-vietnam-floods-climbs-to-100

 

Death toll from Vietnam floods climbs to 100

Sapa-AP | 09 November, 2011 06:23
Rescuers stand on a broken dyke of the Mekong river in An Giang province.

Rescuers stand on a broken dyke of the Mekong river in An Giang province.
Image by: STRINGER/VIETNAM / REUTERS

Vietnamese officials say flooding has killed 100 people and left two others missing – mostly in southern Vietnam, which is suffering its worst floods in a decade.


A disaster official in central Quang Nam province said Wednesday that recent floods there have killed 17 people, left one missing and forced 25,000 people from their homes. Nguyen Minh Tuan says many villages in the province were isolated by floods and landslides.

The government says five other people drowned in central Vietnam and one more is missing.

Meanwhile, the death toll from seasonal floods in the southern Mekong Delta has hit 78. That area has been hit by floods since late August, but the waters have started to recede in central Vietnam.