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The Vietnam News

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185 killed in Vietnamese floods

HANOI - Floods in Vietnam have killed 185 people, including 156 children, and water levels remain high in many areas, officials said Monday. Nearly 225,000 homes were flooded in six provinces in the southern Mekong Delta region, where 22,800 families were evacuated to higher ground but another 20,000 still need to be moved, an official of the Floods and Storms Control Department said on condition of anonymity.

Damage from the floods to roads, agriculture and fisheries rose to $37 million, the official said. Hit hard last year by the worst flooding in four decades, the low-lying Mekong Delta region - Vietnam's rice bowl - is struggling to deal with its second straight year of serious flooding. Last year's floods caused $280 million in damage. To prevent more children from drowning, authorities in the three of the worst-hit provinces have set up more than 500 day-care centers to take care of children whose farmer parents must go out to earn their living.

The Associated Press - October 1st, 2001.