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Tra Vinh declares coastal landslide emergency

The People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh has recently declared a state of emergency following coastal landslides in Truong Long Hoa commune and embankment collapses in Hiep Thanh commune, Duyen Hai town.
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Tra Vinh (VNA) – The People’s Committee of the Mekong Deltaprovince of Tra Vinh has recently declared a state of emergency following coastallandslides in Truong Long Hoa commune and embankment collapses in Hiep Thanhcommune, Duyen Hai town.

Director of the provincial Department ofAgriculture and Rural Development Tran Truong Giang said that Hiep Thanhcommune's coastal embankment was built in 2008 to prevent landslides, andprotect production, people's lives and the commune’s sea dyke.

However, due to impact of high tides and strong waves, it often collapses and subsides, posing a risk of affecting about 50hectares of production land and the lives of 30 households.

Meanwhile, landslides occur on around 6.3kmof Truong Long Hoa commune’s beach, affecting 35 hectares of residential land and 350 hectares of cultivation land, and threatening the lives and propertyof 478 households with 1,735 members, and around 130 hectares of coastal forest.

To minimise damage caused by landslides andembankment collapses, leaders of the provincial People's Committee directed theDuyen Hai town People's Committee to install warning signs and disseminate onthe mass media the situation of landslides, collapses and subsidence.

Localities were required to arrange forcesto closely monitor developments of landslides, collapses, and subsidence, andregularly report to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and atthe same time prepare materials, human resources, and vehicles torespond when landslides, collapses, and subsidence threaten the safety ofpeople's lives and property./.
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