President visits and presents gifts to families affected by flash floods in Lao Cai

This is a historic flood that caused particularly serious damage, leaving 5 people dead and 2 missing. According to local residents, it has been decades since such a sudden flood caused such severe damage.

President Vo Van Thuong visits households that suffered heavy losses in life and property after flash floods in Lien Minh commune.

Lien Minh is a poor commune of Sa Pa town with 4/7 villages in extremely difficult circumstances. The whole commune has 3,739 people, 5 ethnic groups living (Dao people have the highest proportion); of which there are 168 poor households, 255 near-poor households.

The flood that occurred from the night of September 12 to the early morning of September 13 left 5 people dead, 2 missing and 7 injured. Some households suffered severe damage to their houses. The productive land of about 200 households was severely damaged. Local authorities are still maintaining about 300 people to search for the missing people. The scene where the flash flood occurred is being urgently repaired. The three seriously affected areas are the headwaters of Nam Cang, Nam Than and Nam Pa streams.

President Vo Van Thuong visits and presents gifts to households affected by flash floods in Lien Minh commune

After the flood, the two main sectors of aquaculture and homestay tourism of many households in Lien Minh commune were severely damaged; especially aquaculture facilities suffered damage of about 250 billion VND.

Many central ministries, branches, local authorities and organizations have made efforts to help people overcome the damage. However, many households are still facing difficulties because they have devoted all their resources to aquaculture and tourism investment, and have suffered great losses after the flood. People wish to have their debts deferred and refinanced and continue to borrow for reinvestment.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, President Vo Van Thuong sent his deepest condolences to the families suffering pain and loss due to the deaths and missing people as a result of the flood.

Visiting, encouraging and sharing with the people about the great loss of life and property caused by flash floods, President Vo Van Thuong requested local authorities to continue mobilizing forces for search and rescue; encourage and help the affected families and count the damage to urgently support people after the floods.

President Vo Van Thuong inspects the scene in Lien Minh commune.

Regarding the flood causing disruption of production and tourism services of many households in Lien Minh commune, making people's lives difficult, the President shared the aspirations and proposals of the people; at the same time, he requested Lao Cai province to work with relevant units to find solutions to meet the people's legitimate aspirations.

Referring to the heroic tradition of Lien Minh commune, the ethnic people here are always industrious, hard-working, and have many initiatives in economic development such as aquaculture, organizing homestays, improving and enhancing their lives. The President hopes that, with the support of the local government and the community, the people will continue to strive to overcome difficulties to soon stabilize their lives; return to work and develop the economy as before.

President Vo Van Thuong visits and encourages people of Lien Minh commune

President Vo Van Thuong presented gifts and encouraged people of Lien Minh commune who suffered heavy damage caused by the flood.

On this occasion, a number of organizations and individuals also supported and provided material and financial support to help people in the commune overcome the consequences of natural disasters.

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