Hanoi - More than two million people across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand are now homeless as a result of the floods sweeping down the Mekong River, officials said yesterday.
In Vietnam as many as two million people are without shelter, with thousands of families facing hunger and epidemics as they camp out in narrow dykes, they said. More than 200,000 people have abandoned their homes for higher ground in Cambodia, and in Thailand 61,626 people have been evacuated. "The situation will be even more worrying in the next few days as the (Mekong) delta is lower than its Cambodian branches," said a disaster control official in southern Vietnam.