Hanoi (VNA) – An 11-year-old girl died while six others went missing in a flash flood in Cebu province in the central Philippines on July 8.
Roger Suico, chief of the disaster reduction and management office of Carmen town where the accident occurred at around 5 p.m local time on the day, said the victims were among 17 people travelling on a pick-up truck swept away into a creek after a heavy downpour.
The rescue force saved 10 people, and recovered the body of the girl on July 8 night some five kilometres away from the accident site.
Six people remain missing, including newlywed couple and a pregnant woman.
Initial investigation showed that the group attended a wedding in a resort, and were heading back to their village when their truck drove through the flooded road, and swept into a swollen roadside creek./.
