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Flooding near Vietnam’s Halong Bay kills 14

HANOI: At least 14 people have been killed in the worst flooding for 40 years in Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh province, home to the Unesco-listed Halong Bay tourist site, officials said on Tuesday.Three more people were missing and a number of local tourists remained stranded on nearby Co To Island,

By our correspondents
July 29, 2015
HANOI: At least 14 people have been killed in the worst flooding for 40 years in Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh province, home to the Unesco-listed Halong Bay tourist site, officials said on Tuesday.
Three more people were missing and a number of local tourists remained stranded on nearby Co To Island, which is cut off from the mainland due to torrential rain, according to a local disaster relief official.