More than 1,000 die in Southeast Asian floods

November 14, 2011
AFP

At least one thousand people have died in massive floods across Southeast Asia in recent months, according to an AFP tally on November 10, and millions of homes and livelihoods have been destroyed.

The death toll in Thailand - grappling with its worst floods in half a century - has reached 533, the government said, and the slowly advancing waters are now threatening the heart of Bangkok, a city of 12 million people.

In neighbouring Cambodia, the most severe floods in over a decade have killed 248 people, the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest flood report.

98 dead as Vietnam flood toll rises

11/05/2009
Agence France-Presse

HANOI – At least 98 people have been killed by flooding in central Vietnam sparked by Tropical Storm Mirinae, which slammed into the country after pummeling the Philippines, an official report said Thursday.

A further 20 people are missing after the storm struck on Monday, the latest report from the communist country's national flood and storm control committee said.

It said 69 of the fatalities were from Phu Yen province, with the rest coming from Binh Din, Khanh Hoa and Gai Lai provinces.

Television pictures from Phu Yen and Gai Lai showed rescuers in boats helping desperate residents escape some of the worst flooding there in decades.

Water in places reached the rooftops of buildings, where some residents had sought refuge.

"It is the most devastating flooding in more than 30 years in Phu Yen," the national disaster committee said in an earlier statement, after part of the province's system of dykes was overwhelmed.

More than 50,000 people fled the coastal provinces before the storm, which battered the Philippines as a typhoon, was downgraded to a tropical depression and made landfall late on Monday.

Mirinae destroyed 900 homes and damaged more than 14,000 others, while 18,000 hectares (44,479 acres) of rice land was flooded, according to a UN report that cited Vietnamese authorities.

Mirinae also killed two people in Vietnam's neighbor Cambodia and left 27 people dead in the Philippines, where almost 16,000 people are still living in evacuation centers.

26 died from flood water in Kampong Thom province

12 October 2009
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

An interim report by the Kampong Thom provincial authority indicated that, counting from the start of flooding season in September 2009 until 11 October, a total of 17 people died in 7 of the province’s districts due to drowning or flood-related issues, such as transportation vessel capsizing, crushing and drowning, boat overturning, babies falling into water, etc… At the same time, 9 additional people died from drowning due to flood from Typhoon Ketsana at the end of September. Therefore, altogether, Kampong Thom province counts 26 victims of flood and Typhoon Ketsana. Furthermore, 30,000 hectares of rice crops were affected, 17,000 hectares of the rice crops were completely destroyed. Due to flooding, several thousands of children could not attend schools as 93 of these schools were flooded.

Flash floods kill eight Cambodians

September 8, 2009
AP

A torrential storm and flash floods killed at least eight people, including six children, Cambodian officials said on Tuesday.

Three girls and a boy, aged between 14 and 18, were killed on Sunday when they were swept out to sea while swimming in a heavy storm in Preah Sihanouk province, in the southeast of the country, said the province's deputy police chief Yim Bunnath.

In nearby Kampot province, two men were killed by flash floods, said the province's deputy governor Soth Ya. Another 1,500 people were evacuated on Monday to higher ground, he said.

In Kampong Cham province in the east, a six-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl drowned on Sunday while swimming in a pond during heavy rain, the Khmer-language newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea reported on Tuesday.

Parts of the Cambodian countryside are now flooded because of seasonal monsoon rain.