More than 50 troops join search and rescue mission due to landslide in Son La

At present, more than 50 officers and soldiers of the local armed forces are working hard to help local people overcome the consequences.

Accordingly, at 4:00, a landslide suddenly buried homestay Mando in Ta Xua hamlet, owned by Dang Thi Huong Giang, born in 1990, from Phuc Tho district, Hanoi. As a result, Giang died and two people were injured, including her husband and child, and were taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Receiving the information, the Bac Yen district Military Command sent more than 50 troops to the scene for search and rescue mission. According to Colonel Dinh Van Viet, Political Commissar of the unit, the district’s functional forces are still conducting search and rescue, and helping local people overcome the landslide’s consequences.

Leaders of Bac Yen district noted that this is an area at high risk of landslides due to recently-prolonged heavy rains. Local authorities have posted warning signs of danger and banned homestay business activities while encouraging local households to evacuate to safer places. However, Giang’s family had not yet been able to evacuate.

Along with the rescue work, local authorities also visited, encouraged, and expressed condolences to the victim’s family.

The People’s Army would like to present some images at the scene.

Functional forces actively search for missing victims of the landslide.

Troops of Bac Yen district’s armed forces take the victims’ body out of the scene.

Thousands of cubic meters of soil and rock collapse in Ta Xua hamlet, Ta Xua commune, Bac Yen district, Son La province.

The victim’s family’s homestay is destroyed by the landslide.

Translated by Chung Anh