Vietnam’s ancient town turns into a river after record floods
Historic Hoi An submerged as torrential rains trigger worst floods in 60 years
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Wooden boats glide past lantern-lit streets, now eerily silent and transformed into makeshift canals.
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Aerial view shows Hoi An’s UNESCO-listed quarter submerged as the Thu Bon River overflows its banks.
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A woman rows a boat through a flooded street after heavy rains inundated the ancient town of Hoi An, Vietnam.
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This aerial image shows floodwaters submerging streets and buildings after days of relentless rain in Hoi An, Vietnam’s ancient riverside town.
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People steered wooden boats and waded through waist-deep water down Hoi An's flooded streets with the ground floors of houses and shops submerged,
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Several kilometres of roads have been damaged or blocked by flooding and landslides, with more than 5,000 hectares of crops destroyed and over 16,000 cattle dead, the environment ministry said.
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State media reported that a section of a mountain pass linking Danang and Quang Ngai provinces was reopened after it was blocked by a landslide on Sunday.
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Flood levels at a measuring station on the Thu Bon river, which flows through Danang and empties into the sea at Hoi An, "surpassed the historic level in 1964 by four centimetres, reaching 5.62 metres" late on Wednesday, the national weather bureau said.
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