Typhoon Rammasun-related fatalities rise to 10 in northerm    At least 10 people were killed and three others missing due to floods, house collapse and other accidents caused by the depression triggered from typhoon Rammasun as of Sunday night in the northern highlands. Besides three men who were killed by flashfloods Sunday, officials in the northern mountainous Lighting fatally struck three people who were hiding from the rain in Rockslide killed on person in Flood water fatally wept away Dang Van Minh, 13, in Rammasun, which is the second typhoon to hit Widespread landslide and massive flooding have been reported across the region. The swift rise of water gave many families only time to save themselves but not their assets. Hoang Kim Dao, 48, a tea vendor in Lang Son, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper she just stored up more than VND10 million (US$471) worth of tea and it’s all wet now. Dao still put on a worn face from running overnight from the flood, considered the worst in the province in six years. Officials in Lang Son, where many roads have been submerged by one to three meters, said more than 6,000 houses and 2,000 hectares of paddy fields were flooded, and many roads eroded. Material damages are likely to cost up to a million dollar, they said. Houses were also collapsed in other provinces due to flooding or hit by landslide. Rammasun left some 100 people dead in the |
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