A landslide-hit road is cleared for traffic in Lai Chau Province (Photo: VNA)
Flooded provinces are now facing high risks of landslides, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.
Their predictions are based on the rapid water flows reported in northern mountainous provinces, including Quang Ninh, Bac Giang, Thai Nguyen, Lai Chau, Dien Bien and Son La.
Quang Ninh has endured the heaviest prolonged rainfall in 40 years, leaving 17 people dead, 339 houses damaged and 8,952 others submerged under water.
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After days of torrential rain, water levels of the Thuong and Cau Rivers remain high while water is receding slowly in the Cau and Luc Nam Rivers and the lower course of the Thai Binh River. Thuong, Thao, Cau, Luc Nam, and Thai Binh are among the main rivers in northen Vietnam.
The centre predicted that by 7pm on August 5, wat๊er levels of the Cau River would reach 5.45 metres, compared to the curr♛ent 5.29 metres. Water will continue to recede in the other rivers, it said.-VNA
More torrential rain, forecast to be stronger than the record extensive downpour in July 1986, will hit the northern region from July 31 to August 8 with estimated rainfall of up to 300-400mm.
Moderate-to-heavy rains continued in the northern region from the evening of July 30 through the morning of July 31 and are forecast to last through August 3.
Three members of a family went missing and five others were injured when their wooden house in Thong Nong district of mountainous Cao Bang province, was buried in a landslide on the night of August 2.
A rolling landslide caused by prolonged heavy flooding crushed a long stretch of National Highway 12 linking the northern mountainous provinces of Dien Bien and Lai Chau on August 3.
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A landslide-hit road is cleared for traffic in Lai Chau Province (Photo: VNA)
