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Landslide kills four in Vietnam
Jun 4, 2009, 4:20 GMT
Hanoi - Four people were killed as a landslide hit a hydroelectric power station in northern Vietnam, officials said Thursday.
The landslide struck Nam Khoa hydroelectric power station in Lao Cai Province early Wednesday.
The four workers killed were asleep at the time, said Pham Duc Dung, a senior disaster management official in the province.
Rescue forces worked through the day to recover the bodies, but were hindered by the difficult terrain, said Thao A Tua, another provincial official.
'The last body was found at about 9 pm last night,' Tua said.
The landslide was caused by heavy rainfalls over the past few days, the state-run Vietnam News quoted local People's Committee chairman Hoang The Hung as saying.
Last week, six people were killed and two went missing after three days of flash floods hit the central provinces of Nghe An and Binh Dinh.
In 2008 natural disasters killed 550 people in Vietnam and caused damage amounting to more than 700 million dollars.
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