By Xinhua
Hanoi : The death toll in the worst floods that Vietnam has witnessed in the past 45 years rose to 80 Thursday and nine people are reported to be missing.
Floods hit Vietnam’s northern and central regions on Oct 4. The Nghe An province is the most severely-hit region with 34 deaths, according to the Vietnamese Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention.
The floods also damaged over 137,000 houses, and inundated nearly 150,000 hectares of subsidiary crops, said the committee.
In 2006, natural disasters, including typhoons and hailstorms, killed 339 people, left 274 persons missing, and injured 2,065 others in Vietnam. The estimated losses totalled 18.6 trillion Vietnamese dong (nearly $1 billion).