Rescuers on October 15 found bodies of three victims at the site of the Song Bo forest rangers’ office in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, where 13 members of a working team went missing after the building was buried in landslides.
Myanmar troops were deployed to landslide-hit areas in southeastern Mon state on August 11 to support search and rescue efforts after the death toll from a recent landslide increased to 48.
National Highway 18B, which connects the Bo Y international border gate in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum with Laos’ Attapeu province, has recently opened to traffic after being blocked due to landslides.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh Nguyen Van Quang has ordered authorities of Ky Son district to arrange a resettlement area for residents whose houses have been vulnerable to landslides on Road 445.
Thai media reported on July 29 that eight people have been killed after a landslide hit Baan Huay Khab village in the northern Thai province of Nan a day earlier.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on October 13 inspected flood and landslide-hit areas and visited affected people in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai.
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