HANOI – Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave.
The landslides, which hit remote areas in the central province of Quang Nam a day earlier, killed 13 with 40 missing as rescue efforts were hampered by bad weather at the tail end of the storm, the government said.
“We can forecast the storm path or the amount of rain, but can’t predict when landslides happen,” deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said in a statement.
The government said Typhoon Molave had left millions of people without electricity and damaged 56,000 houses.(Reuters)
