Information from the Office of the People's Committee of Cao Bang province said that by late this afternoon (September 9), authorities had found the bodies of four victims in a vehicle accident that was hit by landslides and pushed into the river.
The most recent was a young man born in 1998, from Vinh Quang commune, Bao Lam district. Authorities are sending out notices to find relatives of the unfortunate person.
Previously, according to a report from the Department of Transport of Cao Bang province, at around 5:00 a.m. on September 9, at Km180+650, a serious landslide occurred on the road, pushing a passenger bus (with 20 people on board) into the river.
The accident site is in Ca Thanh commune (Nguyen Binh district, Cao Bang). Rescue work has been carried out since this morning, however, because the road connecting to the accident site has many other landslides, the rescue work is difficult.
Nguyen Binh District (Cao Bang Province) is organizing rescue forces, making efforts to approach the scene of the passenger bus accident; mobilizing more than 300 people including militia, civil servants of the Party, mass organizations, Military, and District Police to urgently go to the scene to support rescue work.
