Related: Floods claim 5 lives in central Vietnam    

    HANOI, Oct. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- The floods in Vietnam's central region and southern Mekong Delta have killed 57 local people, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday.

    The delta has suffered the highest human loss with 29 from An Giang province, 13 from Long An province and 11 from Dong Thap province, since the beginning of the flooding season in mid-August. Floods caused by torrential rain, which started last weekend in central Binh Dinh province, have killed four people.

    The flooding has also submerged thousands of houses and hectares of rice and subsidiary crops in the localities.

    Floodwater in rivers in the central region and the delta is slowly receding, said the National Hydro-Meteorology Forecast Center.

    Last year, natural disasters killed 232 people and left 38 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, causing a property loss of over 900 billion Vietnamesedong (some 57 million US dollars). Enditem