Central region deals with heavy flooding

GLOBAL FLOODING/LANDSLIDES
Feb 21, 2006
Torrential rains hit the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue last week, causing floods in these localities, damaging close to 8,000ha of rice and cash crops.
Around 2,100ha of rice fields and 370ha of vegetable farms in Quang Binh, were under nearly 1m of water; 2,500ha of rice and 500ha of vegetable crop in Quang Tri as well as 1,800ha of rice and 600ha of cash crops in Thua Thien-Hue were affected by rains.
Chief of Quang Binh Province's Committee for Storm-Flood Prevention and Rescue Nguyen Ngoc Giai, said a 100m-long dike collapsed when water rose by 1.36m in Kien Giang River even as the province was repairing damages from last year's floods

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