Floods in Vietnam leave 90 dead and 12 missing, says government

Image from November 20 shows the city of Nha Trang, in Vietnam, underwater after heavy rains hit the country DUC THAO / AFP The death toll from floods in Vietnam has risen to 90, with 12 people still missing, the country’s Ministry of the Environment reported this Sunday (23), after several days of heavy rains and landslides. Since November 16, more than 60 deaths have been reported in mountainous Dak Lak province, where tens of thousands of homes have been flooded. South-central Vietnam has been hit by intense rain since the end of October. Several locations remain isolated this Sunday due to floods and landslides. See the videos that are trending on g1: See the videos that are trending on g1 At the market in the coastal town of Tuy Hoa, in the central province of Phu Yen, the floodwaters had already receded, but some hats, bags and shoes sold by Vo Huu Du, 40, were still soaked or covered in mud. “My products look like a huge, soggy disaster,” he told AFP. “Today, the water reached more than a meter high. All the vendors were affected, not just me.” People face flooding in Nha Thang, Vietnam, in an image from November 20 DUC THAO / AFP More than 129,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity, after more than a million users lost power last week. This Sunday, the Ministry of the Environment calculated economic losses of 343 million dollars (R$ 1.8 billion, 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 is prone to intense rainfall between June and September, phenomena that, according to scientists, have been worsened by climate change caused by humans. People of Phan Rang, in southern Vietnam, face flooding in image from November 21, 2025 BAO QUAN / AFP

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