The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has offered sympathy and aid in cash to families of death or missing people in recent floods in northern mountainous provinces of Bac Kan, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Son La, Lai Chau and Lao Cai.

The VFF’s Hanoi chapter and people of the capital city have also sent 600 million VND in aid to flood-hit regions.

Of the total, Bac Kan province will receive 200 million VND, and Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lai Chau and Lao Cai provinces, 100 million VND each.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) said its staff will donate money to build new houses, each worth 30 million VND, for 30 families made homeless by the flood in early July.

Beneficiaries include 16 households in Bac Kan province, 11 in Cao Bang and three in Lai Chau province.

Ho Chi Minh City has donated 500 million VND in total to help these provinces overcome natural disaster’s aftermath.

According to the latest report of the National Steering Committee on Flood and Storm Control, flood and torrential rains in recent days in the northern mountainous provinces claimed 18 lives (seven in Ha Giang, four in Bac Kan , three in Cao Bang, two in Lao Cai and one each in Son La and Lai Chau).

The flood also left two people in Cao Bang and nine other in Bac Kan missing.

It has pulled down 40 houses, inundated 756 others and destroyed more than 600 ha of rice and farm produce./.