Vietnam flood death toll rises to 90

The decease toll from major flooding successful Vietnam has risen to 90, with 12 radical inactive missing, the Environment Ministry said Sunday (November 23, 2025), after days of dense rainfall and landslides.

Relentless rainfall has lashed south-central Vietnam since precocious October, and fashionable vacation destinations person been deed by respective rounds of flooding. Whole sections of coastal Nha Trang metropolis were inundated past week, portion deadly landslides struck highland passes astir the Da Lat tourer hub.

In the hard-hit mountainous Province of Dak Lak, 61-year-old husbandman Mach Van Si said the floodwaters near him and his woman stranded connected their sheet-metal rooftop for 2 nights.

“Our neighbourhood was destroyed. Nothing was left. Everything was covered successful mud,” Mr. Si told AFP on Sunday (November 23). By the clip they climbed a ladder to their roof, Mr. Si said helium was nary longer scared. “I conscionable thought we were going to dice due to the fact that determination was nary mode out,” helium said.

“More than 60 deaths recorded since November 16 were successful Dak Lak, wherever tens of thousands of homes were inundated,” the Environment Ministry said successful a statement.

Four communes successful Dak Lak were inactive flooded connected Sunday (November 23), the Ministry said, “More than 80,000 hectares of atom and different crops crossed Dak Lak and 4 different Provinces were damaged successful the past week, with implicit 3.2 cardinal livestock oregon poultry dormant oregon washed distant by floodwaters.”

Authorities person utilized helicopters to airdrop assistance to communities chopped disconnected by flooding and landslides, with the authorities deploying tens of thousands of unit to present clothing, water-purification tablets, instant noodles and different supplies to affected areas, State outlet Tuoi Tre News said.

Severe flooding successful Southern coastal Khanh Hoa Province washed distant 2 suspension bridges past week, leaving galore households isolated, the outlet said, citing officials.

Several locations connected National Highways remained blocked connected Sunday (November 23) owed to flooding oregon landslides, according to the Environment Ministry, and immoderate railway sections were inactive suspended.

More than 129,000 customers remained without electricity, aft much than a cardinal were without powerfulness past week. The Environment Ministry connected Sunday (November 23) estimated economical losses of $343 cardinal crossed 5 Provinces owed to the floods.

Natural disasters person near 279 radical dormant oregon missing successful Vietnam and caused much than $2 cardinal successful harm betwixt January and October, according to the National Statistics Office.

The Southeast Asian federation is prone to dense rainfall betwixt June and September, but scientists person identified a signifier of human-driven climatxe alteration making utmost upwind much predominant and destructive.