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Thousands evacuate as Vietnam capital battles flood
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 11 - 2008


More than 40,000 people were
evacuated from inundated areas of Hanoi on Wednesday and some
residents who stayed behind had to cope with floating garbage
as they waited for flooding to recede even though rains eased, reported reuters.
Authorities in Vietnam's capital moved more than 10,300
families from their homes and asked the army to stand ready to
help victims of the worst flooding in the city in more than two
decades, the online VNExpress newspaper (www.vnexpress.net)
reported on Wednesday.
Flood waters from southern China caused rivers in northern
Vietnam to swell to their peaks on Wednesday, worsening
inundations across a wide region that have killed 127 people,
93 of them in northern and central Vietnam.
Among the dead were 22 people killed in Hanoi, which has a
population of about 6 million and includes urban and rural
areas.
"Garbage and home appliances are floating everywhere. The
water is black and as black as acid," a Reuters witness said by
telephone from Tan Mai, an urban area about eight km (five
miles) south of Hanoi's centre.
"Each lane is like a ferry station and it is chaotic, like
in wartime."
More storms are forecast to strike Hanoi late this week,
possibly bringing tornadoes and strong winds, the national
weather centre said.
Vietnam, the world's third-largest rice exporter, has
reported nearly 260,000 hectares (642,000 acres) of rice, corn,
sugarcane and fruit had been submerged.
But its main agricultural areas, including the Central
Highlands coffee belt and the Mekong Delta rice basket -- both
several hundred km (miles) to the south -- have not been
affected by the floods.
Vietnam's Health Ministry has called on all medical staff
in flooded area to prepare for any outbreaks of cholera or
dengue as residents parts of Hanoi and 17 other provinces
struggled with shortages of fresh water, food and power cuts.


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