Floods have killed 19 people, with four others still missing in the central provinces as of Sunday, according to the Central Committee for Floods Prevention and Control.
Around 100,000 houses were submerged in flood waters, forcing thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes.
On Sunday, severe flooding raised the water level of the Ngan Sau River in Ha Tinh province to 3 meters, higher than the flood peak of the river in 2007.
Floods raged in all parts of the province, with the rainfall reaching more than 800 millimeters in the capital city of Ha Tinh and Hoa Duyet District.
The flood have left seven people dead, three missing, hundreds of isolated villages, and more than 83,500 households inundated.
Tuoi Tre reporters followed the provincial border guard soldiers in a boat to Gia Pho commune in Huong Khe District. When we arrived at the site, only several roofs were spotted among a sea of water.
Some local residents waved their hands through the holes on their roofs, some rowed small boats from their inundated houses to ask for instant noodles. Most of them said they were in need of fresh water.
Nguyen Hung Tien, one of the residents, said the villagers slept on the roofs last night, using rain coats as blankets.
Le Tran Sang, vice chairman of Huong Khe District People’s Committee, said the district had 18,000 inundated houses. A suspension bridge was washed away by floods on Saturday.
Ha Tinh province’s authorities have sent helicopters to supply food to resident in the Huong Khe District.
In Nghe An province, heavy rains with the rainfall of 700-800 millimeters submerged five districts, and isolated nine communes. The province has reported eight deaths and 15,000 inundated houses.
Quang Binh province has reported four deaths and one missing people.
Nguyen Van Binh, deputy director of the Hanoi Passenger Railway Company, said around 3,000 passengers in 12 trains were stranded at the stations in Vinh City and Dong Hoi town.
Earlier, on Saturday, flood waters completely shut down operations of the North-South railway from Vinh to Dong Hoi.
Railway authorities have sent 60 buses to carry passengers from Vinh to Dong Hoi and the other way round. But some buses had to stop as several sections of the National Highway 1A were deeply flooded.
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