Hanoi — At least 37 people were killed and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravaged northern and central Vietnam, disaster officials said on Thursday. Heavy rains lashed swathes of the country this week, with northern Hoa Binh province the hardest hit with 11 dead and 21 missing. "We are mobilising all forces to search for the missing," a disaster official in the province told AFP by phone. At least 37 people were killed across six provinces, the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority said, as authorities scrambled to find dozens of people still missing. A journalist from Vietnam News Agency was swept away as an overflowing river cut through a bridge in northern Yen Bai province on Wednesday. Authorities were still looking for him on Thursday. Images on state media showed people wading through waist-deep waters and tracts of forests wiped out by landslides in several regions. At least 18 people were buried in an overnight landslide in Hoa Binh province, with 15 people ...
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