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| Twelve dead, one missing as floods hit Vietnam
HANOI, Aug 5 (AFP) - Twelve people have been killed and another is missing feared dead after storms that have battered Vietnam in the past four days, official media said Tuesday. Torrential rain which has raged since Saturday deluged homes in Chu Mga and Buon Don districts of Dak Lak province in Vietnam's central highlands, according to the army newspaper Nhan Dan. BizVantage – Beyond the news: indepth on business, investment and technology. Seven people were killed and one person was swept away in the two districts, where hundreds of homes and some 1,200 hectares of land had been swamped by up to 1.5 metres of rainfall, the newspaper added citing provincial authorities. In An Giang province on the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, three youths died as floodwaters rose. Some 69 homes had been destroyed in the flooding. In Hai Phong town in northern Vietnam, two rural workers were killed by lightning during a storm as they worked in a rice field, the Tien Phong newspaper reported. na/rcw Vietnam-weather-floods C O P Y R I G H T R E M I N D E RThis article is Copyright 2003 by Agence France-Presse. All articles in the clari.* news hierarchy are Copyrighted and licensed to ClariNet Communications Corp. for distribution. Except for articles in the biz.clarinet newsgroups, only paid subscribers may access these articles. Any unauthorized access, reproduction or transmission is strictly prohibited. We offer a reward to the person who first provides us with information that helps stop those who distribute or receive our news feeds without authorization. Please send reports to reward@clari.net. [Use info@clari.net for sales or other inquiries.] Details on the use of ClariNet material and other info can be found in the user documentation section of our web page.
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