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HANOI - The number of people killed by floods in central Vietnam rose to 107, as officials said Friday the new estimate of damage caused by Mirinae was at least 120 million dollars.
A further 11 people were still listed as missing after the Tropical Depression struck Monday, bringing the most devastating floods in decades to some areas, the national flood and storm control committee said in a report.
Most of the dead were from the country's easternmost province of Phu Yen, where 72 fatalities were recorded.
River levels were receding Friday, Duong Van Huong, head of the provincial storm and flood committee, told AFP.
However, rescue activities were still being conducted by boat in certain hard-hit areas, the committee said.
"Some 200,000 students in Phu Yen are still unable to go to school", Huong said.
On Thursday, Communist Party Secretary General Nong Duc Manh visited neighbouring Binh Dinh province, also badly affected, making sure local authorities provide residents with food, drinking water and medicine.
Some 6,300 soldiers have been mobilised for the rescue effort, according to the national committee.
Mirinae also killed two people in Vietnam's neighbour Cambodia and left 27 people dead in the Philippines, where thousands are still living in evacuation centres after a series of deadly storms this typhoon season. - AFP/vm
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