Hanoi, Dhu-AlQa'dah 2, 1437, Aug 5, 2016, SPA -- At least five people were killed and seven others were missing in flash floods in northern Vietnam triggered by heavy rains brought by Typhoon Nida, officials said Friday. Among the dead were three children in Lao Cai province whose house was washed away late Thursday in a flash flood, said Dinh Trong Tai of the provincial flood and storm control committee. Flash floods damaged 140 houses in the area, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate, dpa quoted the committee as saying. Typhoon Nida made landfall near Hong Kong on Tuesday before dissipating over China's Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to Vietnam's National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. The typhoon did not hit Vietnam directly but brought between 60 and 152 millimeters of rainfall to Lao Cai and other northern areas. --SPA 14:33 LOCAL TIME 11:33 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w