At least 11 people have died and several more are missing in heavy flooding in central Vietnam.
Tens of thousands of homes have been completely submerged by water.
Local authorities mobilise army and police to rescue trapped residents
in central Vietnam following torrential rain.
The communist government has ordered local authorities to mobilise
the army and police to rescue trapped residents following heavy
downpours.
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Officials say at least 11 had died in the flooding with some 27,000 homes under water in the region.
The death toll was seven in Quang Binh province. Conditions are
however improving. Now safety troops can reach areas which were isolated
by flooding.
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Though rainfall is expected to ease, officials warned the region
could be hammered again if typhoon Sarika in the South China Sea reaches
Vietnam.
The 2016 Asian monsoon is one of the strongest in many years, and has
been intensified by the El Niño natural phenomenon which sees Pacific
water temperatures rise and leads to droughts and severe weather
worldwide.
Thousands flee as typhoon lashes Philippines
16 October, 2016
Typhoon Sarika lashed the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday,
flattening homes and toppling trees and power pylons as more than 12,000
people fled to safer ground, officials said. Minor landslides and
flooding were also reported a day after the cyclone brushed past the
remote eastern island of Catanduanes and left one person drowned and
three others missing there.
“We were told roofs were ripped off houses and there were fallen
trees but that’s about the extent of damage that we know of,” Ricardo
Jalad, head of the government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council, told reporters. Nelianto Bihasa, the mayor of the
town of Baler where Sarika made landfall before dawn, told ABS-CBN
network the typhoon destroyed at least 20 houses and left one person
injured there. FULL REPORT
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Typhoon Sarika lashed the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday,
flattening homes and toppling trees and power pylons as more than 12,000
people fled to safer ground, officials said. Minor landslides and
flooding were also reported a day after the cyclone brushed past the
remote eastern island of Catanduanes and left one person drowned and
three others missing there.