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Vietnam floods, landslides kill at least 40 people and 22 others are missing

10:25, Thursday, 12 October, 2017
Vietnam floods, landslides kill at least 40 people and 22 others are missing

At least 40 people were killed and another 22 are missing as floods and landslides ravaged northern and central Vietnam, disaster officials said Thursday.

Heavy rains lashed swathes of the country this week, with northern Hoa Binh province the hardest hit with 11 dead and 21 missing.

"We are mobilising all forces to search for the missing," a disaster official in the province told AFP by phone.

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