Death toll increases to 11 in northern Vietnam after landslide buries van


This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on July 13, 2024 shows medical staff tending to people injured in a landslide in Ha Giang province that killed at least 11 people. A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried and killed at least eleven people who were travelling in a van in northern Vietnam, the country's disaster management authority said on July 13. (Photo by Vietnam News Agency / AFP)

HANOI (AFP): A landslide triggered by heavy rains buried and killed at least 11 people who were travelling in a van in northern Vietnam, the country's disaster management authority said on Saturday.

Northern Vietnam has entered its rainy season, with heavy downpours and flooding making travel along mountain roads treacherous.

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