At least 13 people were killed due to a flood in Vietnam, authorities said on Thursday.
Towns across central Vietnam began reporting rapid flooding beginning on Saturday as the region was hit by an unseasonal monsoon, reported the Vnexpress news site.
The victims were reported in five provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Binh Dinh, reports Xinhua news agency.
Officials in Binh Dinh province reported six deaths as of Wednesday, while five bodies have been found in Quang Nam, two in Quang Tri and one in Thua Thien-Hue.
Floods put much of the port city of Da Nang underwater earlier this week after 635mm of rain fell in a 24-hour period between Saturday and Sunday. Authorities in the country's fourth largest city reported 2550 houses were underwater on Monday at the peak of the floods.
The flood also damaged roughly 12,000 hectares of rice and other crops killed nearly 163,500 cattle and poultry.
In Vietnam, natural disasters, mostly typhoons, floods, and landslides, killed 189 people and injured 140 others, and caused property losses of some 9,000 billion Vietnamese dongs ($391 million) in the first 11 months of this year.
Rain is forecast to continue in the region for the rest of the week, although the floodwaters have begun receding
