HANOI, Sept. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Whirlwinds, torrential rain and big waves caused by a tropical low pressure have made 11 fishing ships sink in Vietnam's southern Ca Mau province, killing one fisherman and leaving 6 others missing, local newspaper Youth reported Friday.

    Sixty-eight other fishermen on the ships, which had the accident on Tuesday and Wednesday, were saved.

    Local rescuers have found locations of 10 sank ships, and pulled 3 of them out of the water. They have kept on relief work.     

    Natural disasters, mainly storms and floods, killed 232 people, left 38 others missing, injured 187 others, destroyed 4,200 houses and 3,000 hectares of rice, and killed over 2,000 cattle and 170,000 poultry in Vietnam last year, causing a total property loss ofover 900 billion VND (some 57 million dollars). Enditem