Floods, landslides claim at least 7 lives in Vietnam

Heavy rain swept central Vietnam on Monday, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven, injuring dozens and stranding thousands.

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The deluges have wreaked widespread destruction across a region already battered weeks ago by floods from record rainfall and the powerful typhoon Kalmaegi.

Rainfall through Wednesday is expected to reach 30-60 centimetres in parts of central Vietnam, with some areas likely to exceed 85 centimetres.

The hard-hit province of Khanh Hoa, a coastal region with hilly inland terrain, recorded one of its heaviest rainfall in years on Sunday night when earth and rocks collapsed on a bus travelling through the Khanh Le pass in the central highlands, state media reported.