>> ASIAONE / NEWS / LATEST NEWS / ASIA / STORY
Vietnam storm death toll passes 122
Sun, Nov 08, 2009
AFP

HANOI, Nov 8, 2009 (AFP) - The death toll from tropical storm Mirinae in central Vietnam has passed 122, with damage estimated at more than five billion dong (about 390 million Singapore dollars), officials said 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 100,000 houses. Several hundred thousand hectares (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 told AFP Sunday.

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.

 

 

 

 
 
STORY INDEX
 
  Vietnam storm death toll passes 122
   
 
  Thai PM defends actions over Cambodia spat
   
 
  Taiwan president presses for more English in college
   
 
  10 people killed in Pakistan car bomb
   
 
  North Korea's Kim cancels TV ads
   
 
  Rising prices take shine off Pakistan weddings
   
 
  3,000 students hit as 4 Aussie colleges close
   
 
  Husband's blog records anger at wife's death
   
 
  Law on sexual assault on students strengthened
   
 
  Soaking vegetables in water for too long might do more harm than good
   
We welcome contributions, comments and tips.
a1admin@sph.com.sg