The tropical storm Mindulle, which wrecked havoc the northern central
region of Vietnam , left one death and 10 other missing by the
morning of August 25.
According to the Flood and
Strom Prevention and Control Steering Committee of the northern central
provinces ’ report, the death victim is nine-year-old Nguyen An Khanh
of Nghe An province who was drowned during the storm while 10 missing
people are members of a Da Nang fishing boat.
The
storm also injured 20 people, including five in Nghe An province, one in
Ha Tinh province, three in Quang Tri province, and 11 in Thua Thien-Hue
province.
Midulle pulled down 24 houses in Nghe An, Quang
Binh and Quang Tri provinces and unroofed 4,112 houses in Nghe An, Quang
Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces.
The
storm also sank seven vessels in Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces and
damaged 11 others in Thanh Hoa and Quang Tri provinces.
About 24,960 ha of rice, more than 7,300 ha of subsidiary crops and 306 ha for aquaculture breeding were flooded.
Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has asked localities
to continue searching missing people, help families of victims and local
people soon return to their normal lives.
National
Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre Director Bui Minh Tang said Mindulle
would deliver rain falls of between 200-400mm in central-coastal
provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Binh.
The meteorologist
warned of possible flash floods and landslide in the highlands and tides
of between 3-5m along the coast from Hai Phong to Thanh Hoa.
Rivers in provinces from Ha Tinh to Quang Tri were expected to continue
rising and would be 0.5m above the first-alarm level.
The
National Flood and Storm Control Steering Committee sent two teams to
affected provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Quang Binh and Quang Tri to
direct the response.
Mindulle was forecast to travel
north-west at 20-25kph and directly effect central provinces from Quang
Binh to Thanh Hoa and the northern delta.
It was then expected to hit provinces from Thai Binh to Ha Tinh weakening into a low.
The tropical low is forecast to be at 20.4 degree north and 103.9 degree east at the Viet Nam-Laos border at 2pm of August 25./.
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