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Meteorologists warned Sunday that winds and rains lashing the coast of central Vietnam could strengthen to storm force and aggravate the catastrophic floods in the southern Mekong Delta.
Vietnamese officials said the floods, which have swamped vast areas of the Delta for the past month, had killed 308 people as of Sunday, 232 of them children.
They said water levels in the worst-hit upstream provinces bordering Cambodia had continued to decline slowly.
But weather experts said a tropical low pressure area affecting 250 miles of coast from the central province of Quang Ngai south to Binh Thuan could worsen.
The system has already brought torrential rains and strong winds to the coast.
