Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2018 shows houses submerged in flood water in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam. Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam's northern provinces over the past few days have killed three people and injured three others, the country's Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Friday. (Xinhua/VNA)
HANOI, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam's northern provinces over the past few days have killed three people and injured three others, the country's Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Friday.
The three victims were from the three mountainous provinces of Hoa Binh, Son La and Yen Bai, and the three injured people are from Hoa Binh, Son La and Thai Nguyen.
The floods and landslides have also destroyed or damaged 371 houses in seven northern provinces and one central province, inundated over 1,000 hectares of rice and other crops, killed 73 cattle and 100 fowls, and damaged 53 hectares of aquaculture ponds, 150 meters of dykes and 560 meters of canals.
Natural disasters, mostly typhoons, floods and landslides, killed or left missing 153 people and injured 119 others, and caused property losses of over 7,000 billion Vietnamese dong (304.3 million U.S. dollars) in the first eight months of this year, according to Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
