Rescuers clear ruins after a landslide in Vietnam's northern Lai Chau Province, on June 24, 2018. Flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday in Lai Chau Province have left three local people dead and three others missing, and injured five people, the provincial authorities said on Sunday. (Xinhua/VNA)

Flash floods and landslides caused by heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday in Vietnam's northern Lai Chau province have left three local people dead and three others missing, and injured five people, the provincial authorities said on Sunday.

The floods also swept away a bridge in Than Uyen district, and damaged two irrigation works in Muong Te district and big areas of crops in Lai Chau, causing property losses of hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars.

In the first five months of this year, natural disasters in Vietnam killed 13 local people, injured 21 others, destroyed or damaged nearly 11,000 houses, damaged 6,100 hectares of rice and other crops, and killed 8,200 cattle and 3,500 poultry, leaving property losses of over 544 billion Vietnamese dong (nearly 24 million U.S. dollars), according to the country's General Statistics Office.