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Flood death toll in southern Vietnam rises to 49

HANOI - Floods in Vietnam's southern Mekong Delta have claimed 49 lives since the beginning of the flooding season in mid-August, local newspaper Youth reported Wednesday. Of the victims, 36, mainly children, were drowned. The floods have damaged nearly 6,850 houses in the delta.

Floods and whirlwinds sparked by a low tropical pressure in thecentral region late last week have also killed 15 people, left 5 others missing, and caused property losses of some 287 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (nearly 18.2 million US dollars). Last year, natural disasters killed 232 people and left 38 missing, injured 187 others, destroyed 4,200 houses and 3,000 hectares of rice, and killed over 2,000 cattle and 170,000 poultryin Vietnam, causing a property loss of over 900 billion VND (some 57 million dollars).

Xinhua - October 12, 2005.