Soldiers in northern Vietnam continued to search today for people still missing from floods and landslides as the death toll rose to 116.
Rescue workers rushed to find 42 people listed as missing and to recover bodies after the floods triggered by a tropical storm that battered nine northern provinces over the weekend.
In the worst-hit province of Lao Cai, 11 bodies were recovered yesterday, bringing the death toll there to 48, provincial disaster official Thao A Tua said.
In neighbouring province of Yen Bai, 34 people were killed, disaster official Tran Anh Van said, adding that the death toll was down by one, because one victim was counted twice.
Military helicopters have begun supplying food and water to people still stranded in three districts in the two hardest-hit provinces, officials said.