HANOI, Oct 16 — Vietnamese rescuers battled driving rain today as they searched for at least 15 construction workers missing and feared dead after a landslide at the start of the week in the mountainous central part of the country. Intense rains since early October have caused floods and...
Military personnel, part of the rescue team, are deployed to search for missing people at a site of a landslide near a hydropower dam in Thua Thien Hue province October 14, 2020. — Tran Le Lam/VNA via Reuters
The landslide took place on Monday at a hydropower dam project in the province of Thua Thien Hue, with two workers confirmed dead up to now. Heavy rain and the risk of more landslides was making it difficult to bring badly needed equipment to the site of the hydropower dam to aid the search, the government said in the statement on its website.
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