Kazakhstan, Palestine send sympathy to Vietnam over flooding
Hanoi (VNA) – President of Kazakhstan Kassym
Tokayev, and President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organisation Mahmoud Abbas sent messages of sympathy to Party
General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong over serious flooding
that caused human and material loss in the central region.
According to
the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, flooding
that began on October 6 had killed 111 people and left 22 missing nationwide as
of 7am on October 21. Some 371 ha of rice paddies have been submerged, 7,126 ha
of crops damaged, and over 700,000 heads of cattle and poultry killed or swept
away.
The floods also inflicted substantial damage upon local agriculture, irrigation, and transport
infrastructure./.