Heavy rains continue to cause widespread flooding and landslides across Southeast Asia and have claimed several more lives as authorities mobilise to try to help.

One person was confirmed to have been killed in Vietnam on Monday, bringing the death toll in the country to 91 people in just over a week. A further five victims died in Thailand.

Vietnam’s weather agency has warned that the heavy rainfall that has been lashing the country since October could return later this week, posing an extra risk in some areas. Nearly half of Vietnam’s more than 100 million people live in flood-prone areas.

The highest number of casualties recorded in Vietnam has come in the mountainous central province of Dak Lak, where at least 63 people have drowned.

Fatalities have also been reported in the prov

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