HANOI: Five soldiers are dead and a frantic search is under way for 17 others after a huge landslide hit central Vietnam on Sunday, as the country battles its worst flooding in years.

TRAGEDY This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency on Sunday shows military personnel carrying a body recovered from the site of a landslide in central Vietnam’s Quang Tri province. PHOTO BY STR / VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY / AFP

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