Hanoi - Raging floods have killed 357 people in central coastal Vietnam, and the death toll and suffering is expected to increase with more rains forecast for the stricken region late yesterday.
Officials said several days of flooding - the region's worst in 100 years - had left huge numbers of people hungry in seven provinces that stretch for some 560 km.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Pham Gia Khiem, speaking on Vietnam Television from the former imperial capital Hue, said 900,000 people in the province of Thua ThienHue alone were living in the open.