
Hanoi (VNA) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a dispatch askingrelevant agencies and organisations to sharpen their focus on rescue efforts andto take remedial action in the wake of recent landslides in the centralprovince of Thua Thien-Hue.
According to the dispatch, landslides triggered by downpours at Ranger StationNo 7 and the Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant construction site buried several soldiersin the rescue team and workers at the construction site.
The PM ordered the Minister of Defence, the Chairman of the Steering Committeeon Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue, the Head ofthe Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, theParty Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee, and the Commander of the High Command ofMilitary Region 4 to organise search and rescue operations in a timely manner,ensuring safety of both people and equipment.
He asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development, and the provincial People’s Committee to inspect the safetysituation at the hydropower plant’s reservoir and to outline measures to guaranteesafety.
The centralregion has been ravaged by rain and flooding since last week, after a coldspell came in contact with tropical turbulence. Thua Thien-Hue has reported sixfatalities, three people missing, and thousands of homes inundated./.