HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Three days of rain caused severe flooding in Vietnam that killed 12 people, washed away houses and forced tens of thousands of people to flee, officials said.
Provincial leader Nguyen Huu Hoai said 10,000 families were evacuated and about 40,000 houses were flooded in Quang Binh province alone, the official Vietnam News Agency reported Monday.
Officials said nine people were reported missing.
Heavy rains and flooding also blocked road and railway transit, cutting off more than 100,000 homes in Ha Tinh province after its two hydropower dams broke, officials said.
"Rain has resulted in landslides leaving 25 areas under thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks and blocking transport on National Highway 8A," said Nguyen Truong Tuong, director of 474 Road Management and Repair Co.
The flood-ravaged provinces of Quang Binh and Ha Tinh will receive $10 million and 2,000 tons of rice, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Sunday.
The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said Typhoon Megi, which ravaged the northern Philippines Monday, was expected to be about 186 miles east of the Hoang Sa Archipelago by Wednesday.
