Two people have reportedly died after being swept away in floodwaters in central Vietnam.
According to AFP, state media website VnExpress reported this on Saturday.
Vietnam’s disaster management authority disclosed that lmost 500 houses were inundated with water in recent days.
The coastal city of Da Nang had been hit with heavy downpour as have areas from Ha Tinh to Quang Nam provinces since Tuesday.
According to State media website,a 61-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy drowned in the floods.
Around 5,000 people were evacuated from homes in Da Nang on Friday night and Saturday morning, it said.
“The floodwater rose to my thighs and all of my family had to move upstairs, before the rescuers came and evacuated us,” city resident Dinh Thi Tu Uyen told VnExpress.
In Hue city on Friday, roads flooded by the Perfume River, with water reaching nearly chest-high levels in some areas.
Last weekend three people died in flash floods and landslides in northern Vietnam.
Heavy rain is forecast to continue across the middle of the Southeast Asian nation in coming days.
Vietnam is frequently lashed by harsh weather in the rainy season between June and November.
Natural disasters including floods and landslides have claimed around 100 lives in the country since the beginning of the year, according to the country’s General Statistics Office.
Scientists have admonished extreme weather events globally are becoming more intense and frequent due to climate change.
