The death toll from floods in Vietnam has risen to 90, and 12 are still missing, after heavy rains and landslides for several days, the Ministry of Environment in Vietnam said on Sunday.
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More than 60 people have been reported dead since November 16 in the mountainous central province of Dak Lak, where tens of thousands of homes have been submerged, the ministry said in a statement.
South-central Vietnam has been exposed to heavy rains since the end of October. Several locations remained isolated on Sunday due to flooding or landslides.
At the market in the coastal town of Tuy Hoa in the central province of Phu Yen, the floods had already receded on Sunday, but some of the hats, bags and shoes sold by Vu Huo Do, 40, were still wet or covered in mud.
“My products look like a huge, wet disaster,” he told AFP. He added: “Today the water height has reached more than a meter,” and “all vendors are affected,” “not just me.”
More than 129,000 homes and businesses are still without electricity after more than a million customers lost power last week.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Environment counted economic losses worth $343 million (1.8 billion Brazilian reals at current prices) due to floods and landslides in five provinces.
More than 80,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops were damaged, while more than 3.2 million birds and livestock died or were swept away by floods.
The Southeast Asian country experiences heavy rainfall between June and September, a phenomenon exacerbated, according to scientists, by human-caused climate change.