{"id":35865,"date":"2025-11-21T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35865"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:23:20","slug":"at-least-41-dead-as-relentless-rains-flood-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/at-least-41-dead-as-relentless-rains-flood-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 41 dead as relentless rains flood Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>BBC News : Relentless rains and floods have killed at least 41 people in central Vietnam since the weekend, while a search continues for nine still missing, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The deluge has submerged more than 52,000 homes and left half a million households and businesses without power, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall exceeded 1.5m (5ft) in several areas over the past three days, even rising beyond the 1993 flood peak of 5.2m in some parts.<\/p>\n<p>The worst-hit areas include the coastal cities of Hoi An and Nha Trang, as well as a key coffee production belt in the central highlands &#8211; where farmers are already reeling from a stalled harvest because of earlier storms.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme weather has battered Vietnam in recent months. Two typhoons, Kalmaegi and Bualoi, left a trail of deaths and destruction within weeks of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Natural disasters in Vietnam have wreaked damage amounting to $2bn between January to October this year, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs published by local media show people stranded on roofs as floodwaters creep into their homes, while a video circulating online shows a suspension bridge in Lam Dong province getting torn off its anchors.<\/p>\n<p>The province has declared a state of emergency after landslides damaged major roads and highways.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was completely halted after part of the Mimosa Pass, a key entry route into the popular tourist city of Da Lat, collapsed into a ravine, while a bus narrowly avoided falling into the gap, AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News : Relentless rains and floods have killed at least 41 people in central Vietnam since the weekend, while a search continues for nine still missing, state media reported. The deluge has submerged more than 52,000 homes and left half a million households and businesses without power, according to reports. Rainfall exceeded 1.5m (5ft) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35867,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions\/35867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}