At least 37 people are dead and another 40 missing after floods and landslides devastated parts of northern and central Vietnam.

Vietnam's Disaster Management Authority says at least 21 people have been injured in the disaster, all of them in the hardest-hit northern province of Hoa Binh, where 11 people were killed.

The disaster was triggered by a tropical depression that reached Vietnam earlier this week, producing as much as 40 centimeters of rain. At least 16,000 homes have been submerged, and thousands of hectares of crop land have been damaged.

Vietnam is prone to floods and storms that kill scores of people each year.

至少37人在越南北部和中部的洪水和滑坡中喪生，還有40人下落不明。

越南災害管理當局說，還有至少21人受傷。傷情都發生在北部受災最嚴重的和平省。和平省有11人喪生。

引發災害的是本星期早些時候形成的一個熱帶低壓槽，給越南帶來多達40公分的降雨，淹沒了至少1萬600多棟房屋，成千上萬公頃的農作物被毀。

越南經常發生洪水和暴雨，每年都會有數十人喪生。