Nearly 2 months after the landslide, Ms. Bui Thi Phuong (resident of residential group 2, Thac Ba town) still cannot help but panic when recalling the incident.
At around 9am on September 10, the Chay River water rose, the house was at risk of landslide, she and her daughter-in-law packed their belongings to move to another place to stay.
"While I was in the kitchen cleaning up household items, I saw unusual phenomena. At that time, I had imagined that the cause was a landslide, but I didn't think it would happen so quickly. I only had time to tell my daughter-in-law to run away. In a split second, more than 60 square meters of garden land and part of the kitchen had collapsed into the riverbed," the woman said, helplessly looking at the house that had been partially eroded and swept away by the water.
Standing in front of her house - an asset that she has accumulated over many years and is at risk of being eroded, Ms. Phuong worriedly said: "For nearly 2 months now, my family has had to stay at a neighbor's house 300m away, and the house is always in a state of high erosion and we cannot return. I really hope that the authorities will support the people building the embankment and stabilize their lives."
In addition to Ms. Phuong's family, there are also 7 other households in residential group 2, Thac Ba town affected by the embankment landslide.
Luckily, Ms. Phuong's neighbor, Ms. Vi Thi Thuc (30 years old), after many days of "running away from the storm", was able to return home. However, her family always lives in a state of anxiety because their house could be swept away by the water.
"The storm has swept away more than 40 square meters of garden land. Now, the landslide risk is close to the edge of the house. Just one more rain and the whole house could collapse at any time," Ms. Thuc confided.
According to Lao Dong's report on November 5, the landslide area is dozens of meters long, the subsidence location compared to the original ground level is about 4-5 meters close to the residential area outside the riverbank, with the possibility of continuing to slide, causing insecurity for people, property of local people and safety of the dike.
Talking to Lao Dong, Secretary of the Thac Ba Town Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Tung said that currently, the Economic Infrastructure Department of Yen Binh District has advised the Yen Binh District People's Committee to propose to competent authorities to arrange funding to build embankments along the river to ensure stable lives for people in this area.
"In the immediate future, the town has evacuated families affected by this landslide and posted signs warning of landslide risks to ensure people's safety," informed the Party Secretary of Thac Ba town.
