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HANOI: Tropical storm Mirinae, which hit the Philippines as a deadly typhoon at the weekend, killed at least 40 people and left 11 missing in Vietnam, a national disaster official said on Tuesday.
Mirinae was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical depression before it hit Vietnam's central coastal areas on Monday.
"Most of the victims were because of serious floods that hit the provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh and Gia Lai in particular," the official said.
Fifty-nine people were reported as injured so far, the official added.
The national disaster committee's earlier toll was four dead and two missing.
"Rain is not very heavy now, but several areas in our province are seriously flooded," official Nguyen Xuan Phu of Binh Dinh province told AFP earlier on Tuesday.
According to the committee, up to 338 millimetres of rain fell in Vietnam's central regions. The storm damaged or destroyed an estimated 2,600 houses and flooded some 1,800 hectares of farmland.
State television showed people stuck on their roofs, waving for help from local emergency workers in Phu Yen, and rescuers trying to bring children and old people to higher areas.
Vietnam's coastal provinces had evacuated more than 50,000 people before the storm hit on Monday night, but some residents were still trapped by flooding on Tuesday, the committee said.
Vietnam, like the Philippines, is frequently hit by tropical storms and flooding.
Mirinae left 19 people dead and three missing in the Philippines. - AFP/de
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