HANOI (Reuters) -The death toll from a new round of torrential rain, flooding and landslides in central Vietnam since the weekend has risen to 16, a government report said on Thursday, with water levels rising further in already inundated towns and villages.

Rainfall exceeded 1,500 millimetres in several parts of central Vietnam over the past three days. The region is home to a key coffee production belt as well as the country’s most popular beaches, but it is highly prone to storms and floods.

The floods and landslides have also left five people missing, and inundated more than 43,000 houses and over 10,000 hectares of crops, according to the report from the government’s disaster management agency.

Traders on Wednesday said the floodwaters have also inundated coffee farms and hampered

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