Mountainous Provinces Focus on Mitigating Floods and Landslides
Following a period of heavy rain, the provinces of Cao Bằng and Lạng Sơn have reported significant losses in terms of both human life and property.
According to the Office of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Cao Bằng, widespread heavy rain throughout the province over the past week resulted in 23 houses being damaged due to landslides, with dozens of critical transportation routes being disrupted due to large-scale landslides. The province of Cao Bằng has reported 2 fatalities as a result of landslides, with rocks rolling into houses.
100 Billion-Dong Road Connecting Lạng Sơn and Thái Nguyên Completed
After two years of construction, the 100 billion-dong road connecting the difficult-to-reach areas of Lạng Sơn and Thái Nguyên provinces has been completed and put into operation.
The Tân Tri - Nghinh Tường road was constructed on the poor Tân Tri Commune (Bắc Sơn, Lạng Sơn) and connects with Võ Nhai District (Thái Nguyên), with a total length of 9.3 km and a total investment of nearly 120 billion dong, managed by the Lạng Sơn Construction and Maintenance Management Board for Infrastructure.
Helicopter Transports Fishermen from Trường Sa to Shore
At noon on August 6, the EC-225 helicopter with registration number 8619 of the 18th Corps (Ministry of National Defense) transported a team of doctors from the 175th Military Hospital to the Trường Sa Island to perform a task of rescuing and treating fishermen who were injured.
Earlier, on the afternoon of August 5, Mr. Mai Anh Tuấn (from Bình Định Province) was a fisherman on the BĐ 95653TS fishing boat who was hit in the head (right temporal region) by a fishing net. At that time, the Bình Định fishing boat was fishing in the waters near Tiên Nữ Island (Trường Sa District).
