HANOI, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rain and flood in central Vietnam since last weekend killed at least eight people and inundated thousands of houses, plus thousands of hectares of crops, reported local online Thanh Nien (Youth) on Wednesday.

The report was based on data from Vietnam's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CCFSC), saying four victims are from central Nghe An province, three from Lam Dong province and one from Binh Thuan province.

More than 2,000 houses in central Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and Binh Thuan provinces were inundated or destroyed, and over 72,120 hectares of rice paddy fields in these provinces and in other northern Thai Binh, Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh provinces were flooded, the report said.

The CCFSC said that the water level on the local rivers is rising to their peak and will lower on Thursday morning.

Landslides along the rivers may happen, the CCFSC warned.

A four-year-old girl was killed when a landslide buried her nursery classroom in the northern mountainous Lao Cai province on Tuesday afternoon, while another three kids and their teacher got injured, reported the CCFSC.