Vietnam floods kill 67 as new storm threatens

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HANOI, Nov 6 (AFP): Officials in Vietnam said Tuesday that floods have killed at least 67 people over the past week while more than 160,000 have been evacuated as coastal areas brace for another tropical storm.
At least 10 people are still missing, according to the national flood and storm control committee in an online report.
"People have encountered numerous difficulties as they have to cope with continuous floods for several weeks," a provincial disaster official said.
"However, we have provided them clean water, instant noodles, rice and medicine, trying to ensure that no one has to suffer from starvation."
State media said starvation and disease threaten to affect hundreds of thousands of people, whose houses have been submerged for more than a month since typhoon Lekima hit in early October.
Local authorities have called on the government to provide immediate help, especially food and medicine, while infrastructure and crops have also been seriously damaged.
The report also said tropical storm Peipah, Vietnam's sixth storm in 2007, may reach central southern coasts on Friday, raising river levels.
Authorities have been put on high alert, with the storm now in the south China sea with winds of more than 100 kilometres (60 miles) per hour.
Continuous floods and storms killed 114 people in Vietnam in October, the General Statistics Office said.