Phan Van Thuong (L), 66, and his wife, Luong Thi Cac, 63, take care of their crying granddaughter in their flooded house in Hong Ngu district of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap September 15, 2000. Deaths in disastrous floods in Vietnam's Mekong Delta rice bowl rose to 19 since last week after a stricken province bordering Cambodia reported another five children and an adult dead.

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