Vietnam braces for new tropical storm as flood toll rises to 49

November 5th, 2007

Flood-ravaged central Vietnam was bracing for Tropical Storm Peipah, forecast to make landfall this week, even as the country copes with floods that have killed at least 49 people in two weeks, officials said Monday. By Monday morning, the floods had cut off a main north-south railway in central Binh Dinh province and more than 100,000 houses were …

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