Tropical storm Mirinae, which hit the Philippines as a deadly typhoon at the weekend, killed at least 40 people and left 11 missing in Vietnam, a national disaster official said Tuesday.
Mirinae was downgraded from a typhoon to a tropical depression before it hit communist Vietnam's central coastal areas on Monday.
"Most of the victims were because of serious floods that hit the provinces of Phu Yen, Binh Dinh and Gia Lai in particular," the official said.
Fifty-nine people were reported as injured so far, the official added.
The national disaster committee's earlier toll was four dead and two missing.
According to the committee, up to 338 millimetres (13 inches) of rain fell in Vietnam's central regions. The storm damaged or destroyed an estimated 2,600 houses and flooded some 1,800 hectares (4,400 acres) of farmland.
"Rain is not very heavy now but several areas in our province are seriously flooded," official Nguyen Xuan Phu of Binh Dinh province told AFP earlier on Tuesday.
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