More than 32,700 houses in Quang Binh are still deeply flooded due to heavy rains and floods.

Due to the impact of storm No. 6, heavy rain continues to fall in Quang Binh province, causing the number of severely flooded houses to continue to increase.

As of 5 a.m. on October 29, the entire province had 32,767 houses severely flooded; the flood left one person dead and one missing.

Of these, Le Thuy district has more than 19,760 houses, Quang Ninh district has more than 12,000 houses and Dong Hoi city has 1,000 houses deeply flooded.

Quang Binh province has relocated 1,249 households with 3,681 people; of which Quang Ninh district had to relocate the most with 1,105 households with 3,125 people. Localities also relocated 9,123 households on the spot.

In addition, the whole province has 76 flooded points on traffic routes. Of these, 14 National Highways have been flooded, mainly on National Highway 9B, National Highway 15, National Highway 9C, National Highway 9E and National Highway 1; 62 Provincial Roads have been flooded in Dong Hoi City, Bo Trach, Minh Hoa and Quang Trach. In addition, there are 15 landslides on National Highways and in districts and towns.

To ensure people's safe travel, Road Management Area II (Vietnam Road Administration) has proactively coordinated with local traffic police to promptly divert traffic into bypass routes; not allowing people to enter deeply flooded roads.

Due to heavy rains in recent days, the current capacity of 35 large and medium-sized irrigation reservoirs managed by the Irrigation Works Exploitation One Member Limited Liability Company has reached 92.9% of the design capacity; reservoirs managed by localities have reached over 98.92%.

Quang Binh province requires units and localities to deploy plans to ensure the safety of people's lives and property in flooded areas; put up warning signs, assign forces to be on duty and guard at deeply flooded and landslide-prone roads; absolutely do not allow people and vehicles to pass through these roads.