Emergency aid relief to storm Nari victims
Accordingly, Quang Nam province will receive 600 million VND, 400
relief goods packages and 400 sets of house fixing tools, Da Nang city,
400 million VND, 200 relief goods packages and 130 sets of house fixing
tools and Quang Ngai province, 200 relief goods packages.
The VRC has asked its chapters in the typhoon-hit localities to
evaluate the consequences to timely support the victims in resuming
their production and repairing their houses.
A delegation of voluntary doctors went to the localities to provide the locals with free medical check-ups.
According to the National Committee for Search and Rescue, storm
Nari killed at least four people and left five others missing in the
central region
The storm, which hit land on October 15,
also injured 69 people in Quang Nam, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Ngai, Quang
Tri and Nghe An provinces and Da Nang city
It also sunk and destroyed 76 ships and destroyed over 16,300 houses.
According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorology Forecasting,
water levels in the rivers from Nghe An province to Quang Binh province
have all risen above the second-warning level in the afternoon of
October 16.
To cope with the problem, the National
Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control and the Committee for
Search and Rescue sent an urgent message to Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang
Binh provinces and other related agencies to evacuate people in the
areas to higher places.-VNA