越南洪灾滑坡造成37人丧生

At least 37 people are dead and another 40 missing after floods and landslides devastated parts of northern and central Vietnam.

Vietnam's Disaster Management Authority says at least 21 people have been injured in the disaster, all of them in the hardest-hit northern province of Hoa Binh, where 11 people were killed.

The disaster was triggered by a tropical depression that reached Vietnam earlier this week, producing as much as 40 centimeters of rain. At least 16,000 homes have been submerged, and thousands of hectares of crop land have been damaged.

Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill scores of people each year.