The death toll from severe floods in south and central Vietnam has risen to 90, authorities said, as the Southeast Asian country continues to assess the damage after days of relentless rain.

In a statement on Sunday, the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said some 63 of the deaths since November 16 were recorded in the mountainous central Dak Lak province, where tens of thousands of homes were flooded.

It said at least 12 people were still missing in the region.

While the floodwaters have begun to recede in hard-hit Dak Lak, several communities remain inundated and hundreds of families are still affected, the VnExpress news website reported.

Mach Van Si, a 61-year-old farmer in Dak Lak, said the floodwaters left him and his wife stranded on their sheet-metal ro

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