Flash floods kill 2 in northern Vietnam after Storm Prapiroon

Around 1 a.m. on Thursday, flash floods upstream swept through a village in Muong Pon Commune of Dien Bien District in the namesake province, taking down several houses and flooding many others.

The sudden situation forced villagers to rush out of their houses to take shelter elsewhere.

It was not until the morning that they were able to come home.

So far, a mother and her child have been confirmed dead while five people of two families are still missing.

The Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue Command of Dien Bien Province reported that the rain and floods from Wednesday night to Thursday morning have swept away 10 houses, collapsed eight, and affected over 100 others.

Affected by the circulation of Prapiroon, which delved into a tropical depression when making landfall in the northern Quang Ninh Province on Tuesday morning, the entire northern region, including Hanoi, has experienced continuous heavy rainfall for the past two days.

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reports that from Wednesday night to Thursday morning, Muong Pon in Dien Bien received over 290 mm of rainfall.

In Son La Province that borders Dien Bien, heavy rains caused landslides and major floods, resulting in four deaths and five missing people in Mai Son and Thuan Chau districts on Wednesday while approximately 640 houses, over 28,000 hectares of crops, and 44 hectares of aquaculture were destroyed.

 

 

Flash floods kill 2 in northern Vietnam after Storm Prapiroon

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