On the morning of March 15, Mr. Bui Ngoc Du - Chairman of the People's Committee of Ha Linh Commune (Huong Khe District) - said that at around 1:00 a.m. on March 15, the chicken farm of Mr. Tran Quoc The and his wife in Hamlet 12, Ha Linh Commune had a power outage, causing a broken cooling system (power outage at the farm).
As a result, about 8,000 chickens out of more than 12,000 chickens raised on the farm near the date of sale suffocated.

According to Mr. Du, after the incident, the local government sent officials and called on people to support the family in overcoming the consequences, handling the dead chickens to see if they could be consumed anymore and clearing the farm.