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In Vietnam's Yen Bai province floods tore through villages on Thursday night, carrying with them large boulders from mountains<br><br>Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains have killed 26 people and left 15 missing in Vietnam's mountainous north, authorities said Monday.<br><br>Since the start of August, flash floods have caused widespread destruction in the provinces of Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Son La, Cao Bang and Lai Chau, the Hanoi-based disaster control office said in a statement.<br><br>"Twenty-six people are dead, 15 missing and 27 others were injured," it said.<br><br>According to witnesses in Yen Bai province, floods tore through villages on Thursday night, carrying with them large boulders from the mountains.<br><br>"I told my wife, children and grandchildren to rush out to the side of the hill," resident Pham Xuan [http://vanphongcongchung.vn/ công chứng ở thanh xuân] told online newspaper Phap Luat.<br><br>"In a very short time, dozens of houses in our village were washed away."<br><br>Vietnam state media ran pictures of villages swamped by mud<br><br>State media ran pictures of villages swamped by mud.<br><br>Throughout the northwestern area more than 650 houses were destroyed and damaged, hundreds of hectares of crops lost and roads broken, [http://Www.Answers.com/topic/authorities authorities] said.<br><br>Around 235 people were reported dead and missing last year due to flooding and bad weather in Vietnam. [http://Www.Estateguideblog.com/?s=Authorities%20estimated Authorities estimated] the losses at $1.7 billion.