China News Service, October 21. According to Agence France-Presse, on the 21st local time, the Vietnamese authorities stated that after weeks of severe floods and landslides, at least 111 people have been killed and 20 people are missing in central Vietnam.

  According to statistics from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, approximately 178,000 households were submerged by the flood, and rescuers are working to provide food and drinking water to those whose supplies have been cut off.

  The agency also added that roads, infrastructure and crops in central Vietnam were also destroyed by floods, and warned that hundreds of thousands of people will need housing and financial support in the coming weeks.

  Vietnam's disaster management department said that at least 111 people were killed by the flood and nearly 200,000 people were evacuated.

  An official from the Vietnamese Red Cross said that the flood was "the worst we have seen in decades."