Storm Death toll hits 130 as Landslide kills 13 in Vietnam
Pastor Dale Morgan
Storm Death toll hits 130 as Landslide kills 13 in Vietnam*
Agence France-Presse
November 07, 2009 04:38pm
AT least 13 people have been killed in a landslide in central Vietnam
following storms and flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead,
officials said.
The 13 were killed and another person was seriously injured in the early
hours of Friday in the coastal province of Quang Nam, local emergency
official Vo Xuan Quang said.
The landslide, triggered by rains that have lashed the country since
Tropical Storm Mirinae hit on Monday, dumped thousands of tonnes of
earth and mud on a group of gold miners, who were sleeping at the time,
Quang said.
The storm and flooding that followed have left another 116 people dead,
most of them in the country's easternmost province of Phu Yen.
Mirinae also killed two people in Vietnam's neighbour Cambodia and left
27 people dead in the Philippines, where thousands are still living in
evacuation centres after a series of deadly storms this typhoon season.