On the evening of February 21, in an exchange with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, the leader of Nam Truc Commune People's Committee, Ninh Binh province, said that a waste treatment area in the commune was experiencing a large fire.
It is known that the landfill is located near the Dao River dike, Dong Coi area, Nam Giang town, Nam Truc district, former Nam Dinh province (now Nam Truc commune, Ninh Binh province).
Currently, local authorities, fire prevention and fighting forces and rescue forces are present at the scene to extinguish the fire and investigate and clarify the cause of the fire.