Hanoi - An official Vietnamese newspaper reported yesterday that 54 people were feared dead in landslides at two gold mines in central Vietnam last month.
The Tuoi Tre newspaper said the victims had been buried in landslides triggered by rains in Quang Nam province, near Danang. Forty-nine people were feared to have been buried in one incident while five were killed and eight injured in another. Just over half the bodies had been recovered, it said.