Landslides in Vietnam kill at least 6

Landslides in Vietnam kill at least 6

At least five people were killed and 18 injured when a passenger bus was buried by falling soil and rocks on Khanh Le Pass late Sunday, while another landslide on Khanh Son Pass killed one person and left another missing, according to the disaster authority.

This photo taken and released by Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on November 17, 2025 shows vehicles stuck on a damaged road following landslides triggered by heavy rain, near the location where a passenger bus was submerged by falling soil and rock on Khanh Le Pass in Khanh Hoa province. Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam have killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen, disaster agency officials said on November 17, as the country's flood-hit central belt endured relentless precipitation.
Vehicles stuck on a damaged road following landslides triggered by heavy rain, near the location where a passenger bus was submerged by falling soil and rock on Khanh Le Pass in Khanh Hoa province. (AFP pic)
HANOI:
Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam have killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen, disaster agency officials said Monday, as the country’s flood-hit central belt endured relentless precipitation.

A passenger bus was submerged by falling soil and rock in the scenic Khanh Le Pass in Khanh Hoa province late Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 18 others, according to the disaster and dyke management authority.

The bus was carrying 32 passengers, state media said Monday, with some of the injured being treated for head and limb injuries at a local hospital.

Rescuers were racing to free some passengers trapped inside the bus, state media said.

Earlier Sunday, a landslide struck a workers’ shelter in Khanh Son Pass in Khanh Hoa, killing one person and leaving another missing, according to the disaster authority.

Natural disasters have left 279 people dead or missing this year and caused more than US$2 billion in damage, according to Vietnam’s national statistics office.

The Southeast Asian nation is prone to heavy rain between June and September, but scientific evidence has identified a pattern of human-driven climate change making extreme weather more frequent and destructive.

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