An image published by state media on Monday showed a room in a main hospital in the city flooded with murky water and two patients seated on gurneys.
Tourists in ancient Hoi An town were pictured in state media navigating narrow streets in boats while AFP journalists saw authorities evacuate several people from heavily flooded areas.
“The level of natural disaster risk due to flash floods and landslides is at the highest level,” said Mai Van Khiem, director of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, according to a government website.
More rain was forecast for the central provinces into Wednesday, he added.
Some schools were closed in the cities of Hue and Danang beginning Saturday while the railway linking the country’s north and south saw delays due to flooding.
Scientists say human-driven climate change is making extreme weather events like storms and floods more deadly and destructive.
Vietnam’s mountainous north and capital Hanoi were under severe flooding in early October following typhoons Bualoi and Matmo.
Natural disasters, mostly storms, floods and landslides, left 187 people dead or missing in the Southeast Asian nation in the first nine months of this year.
Total economic losses were estimated at more than US$610 million, the General Statistics Office said.
Source: CNA
