The death toll from floods and landslides in Vietnam rises to 55 news

The Vietnamese government disaster management agency announced on Saturday that the death toll from floods and landslides in central Vietnam has risen to 55 people, with 13 considered missing.

Almost half of the deaths were in Dak Lak Province, where 27 people died, while 14 people died in Khanh Hoa Province, while the rest of the victims were distributed among 4 other provinces.

The regions of southern and central Vietnam have witnessed non-stop rains since late October, causing several floods that flooded tourist destinations and archaeological sites, with the rainfall rate exceeding 1,900 millimeters in some parts of central Vietnam.

Rescue teams in Vietnam continue to make efforts to find the missing, while work is still underway to rescue people stuck on trees and rooftops as flood waters recede on Friday, according to official media reports.

Entire residential neighborhoods were submerged this week in the coastal city of Nha Trang, while deadly dust slides swept through highland paths surrounding the tourist center of Da Lat.

Many highways remain unusable, and 300,000 people remain without electricity after an outage that initially affected more than a million people.

Vietnam’s disaster agency said more than 235,000 homes were flooded and nearly 80,000 hectares of crops were damaged.

Natural disasters between January and October left 279 people dead or missing in Vietnam, and caused damage exceeding $2 billion, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

Scientists attribute the abundance of rain to climate warming caused by human activity, which makes natural phenomena more intense and more frequent.