Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks

Search and rescue forces are working to find twenty two 22 officers and soldiers who were missing after a landslide engulfed their base in the mountainous area of Quang Tri Province on October 18.
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 1Landslide in Quang Tri province comes days after another mudslide killed 13, mostly soldiers, when they were carrying out rescue mission at Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant in flood-hit Thua Thien-Hue province (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 2The incident in Quang Tri province occurred at 1:25am on Oct. 18 in Cop hamlet where 27 officers and soldiers of Defence - Economic Division 337 under Military Zone 4 stayed to help local residents overcome disaster consequences. Five of them have been saved. In the photo: Efforts are made to find victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks. (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 3As of 4:45 pm of October 18, 14 bodies had been found (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 4Search and rescue forces work to find officers and soldiers who were missing after a landslide engulfed their base in the mountainous area of Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 5Search and rescue forces work to find officers and soldiers who were missing after a landslide engulfed their base in the mountainous area of Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 6Over the past days, the province has witnessed heavy rains, causing floods in some areas (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 7The hardest-hit localities include Thanh An commune, Cam Lo distric, Dong Giang ward in Dong Ha city (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 8Over the past days, the province has witnessed heavy rains, causing floods in some areas (Photo: VNA)
Efforts to find 22 victims in mountain landslide hitting army barracks ảnh 9Heavy rains since early October have caused deadly floods and landslides in several provinces in central Vietnam, including Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA)
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