Floods in Vietnam kill teenager, toll 120

By Peter Gill: Fresh floods triggered by rains swept away a teenager in northern Vietnam and several boats were destroyed, the government said on Wednesday, as it struggled to deliver aid to thousands of people hit by the worst floods in four decades, reports The Washington Post.

At least 120 people have been killed after days of heavy rains triggered by the remnants of a tropical storm. Another 44 are missing.

On Tuesday, rescue workers found the body of a 13-year-old boy in Quang Ninh province after it was hit by torrential rains from a tropical low-pressure system, the government said in a report. Another four people were missing. The low-pressure system weakened as it made landfall in Quang Ninh, moved further inland and dispersed, the national weather bureau said. The region is about 1,500 km (930 miles) north of Vietnam's main rice and coffee production zones. Preliminary estimates of property losses in three of the 11 provinces affected by the disaster stood at 1.74 trillion dong ($105 million).