On July 26, speaking with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Nham Quang Van - Captain of Rescue Team 116 - said that this morning, Mr. Van announced on Facebook with the content of wanting to find someone to transfer 50 million VND to the rescue team to send back.
The posted content is as follows: "The team does not know which relatives in the ship sinking in Quang Ninh have just transferred 50 million to the Rescue Fund under account number 116116xxx ACB bank with the content: Thank you to the Rescue Team for searching hard for our relatives.
Please contact the team so that the team can send back the above amount of money because the families of the brothers and sisters are in too much pain and loss, they need that money more than us. For the past 5 years, Team 116 has not known to receive money from any victim's family."
Sharing more with reporters, Mr. Van said: "For the past 5 years, our team has been conducting rescue work in the North and Central regions with the spirit of being completely free. We - those who are familiar with the river area - as soon as we received information about the tourist boat capsize in Ha Long and needed to coordinate to find the last victims, all members were united to set off."
It is known that in the search for victims of the Green Bay 58 tourist boat capsize, Rescue Team 116 had 35 members participating and 15 rescue boats.
According to Mr. Van, the team started work early in the morning of July 20, exploring every nail, the caves at sea within a radius of dozens of kilometers around the scene of the shipwreck.
Up to now, Rescue Team 116 has coordinated with the authorities to search for many bodies of the victims. On the afternoon of July 26, the team found another body, suspected to be the last victim of the Vinh Xanh 58 tourist boat capsize, license plate QN-7105 that occurred on July 19.
