Floods claim 57 lives in Vietnam
HANOI - Fifty-seven people have perished in floods ravaging the Mekong delta in southern Vietnam and in the central region over the last several weeks, according to the last official tolls released.
The official Vietnam News Agency said four people died in central Binh Dinh province and 53 in the three southern provinces of An Giang, Dong Thap and Long An.
Thousands hectares of rice and some dykes have been damaged VNA said.
The agriculture sector in Mekong Delta provinces is encouraging farmers to clean their rice-fields to prepare for the cultivation of the winter-spring rice crop just after floodwaters recede.
Thousands of people have been displaced by the floods that regularly hit the Mekong region.
Agence France Presse - October 25, 2005.
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