Vietnam's Chief of General staff Phan Van Giang and military officers carry the coffin of General Nguyen Van Man who died of a landslide on a rescue mission at a hydropower plant, during his funeral ceremony in Thua Thien Hue province, Vietnam October 18, 2020. Do Truong/VNA via REUTERS
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese soldiers with heavy machinery and rescue dogs searched on Monday for the last remaining troops buried under a mudslide, after recovering 18 bodies from the latest in a week of deadly landslides caused by unrelenting rains.
Floods and mudslides during October have killed at least 93 people in central Vietnam and left 30 missing, among those four military, which has lost 29 personnel to the adverse weather, in what could be its highest number of peace-time casualties. Four bodies were found on Monday.
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