(Live) Red River flood cannot cause flooding in Hanoi's inner city

The early morning bulletin of September 11 from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said that as of 0:30 a.m. the same day, the Red River flood was rising rapidly, reaching 10.54 m, 0.04 m above alert level 2.

Red River flood rose rapidly since yesterday afternoon, September 10.

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At 1 o'clock, the water level on the Red River in Hanoi was 10.6 m, 0.1 m above alert level 2.

At 7am this morning, the water level on the Red River in Hanoi was 10.7m, 0.2m above alert level 2.

It is forecasted that by 1:00 p.m. today, it will rise 0.25 m above alert level 2 and reach 10.75 m by the evening of the same day, 0.25 m above alert level 2.

The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting warns of the risk of flooding and the possibility of other accompanying natural disasters.

In particular, the flood on the river is rising, causing flooding and landslides in riverside areas; posing a risk of insecurity for dykes in the districts of Bac Tu Liem, Hai Ba Trung, Dan Phuong, Phuc Tho, Son Tay, Thanh Tri, Gia Lam, Long Bien, Tay Ho, Hoan Kiem, Dong Anh, etc.

Flood risk warning level in Hanoi is at level 2. Flood impact warning due to high water levels in rivers, causing deep flooding, flooding of riverside areas, low-lying areas in some agricultural production areas, aquaculture and many residential areas of the locality.

At the same time, it can endanger people's lives and production, threatening the lives and property of people in some areas of Dan Phuong, Phuc Tho, Son Tay, Thanh Tri, Gia Lam, Long Bien, Tay Ho, Hoan Kiem, Dong Anh districts...

Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living outside the Red River dike overnight to safety due to rising river water.

On the morning of September 11, the Hanoi Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control announced that at 11:30 p.m. on September 10, it had issued a Level 2 Flood Alert on the Red River in the districts of Bac Tu Liem, Tay Ho, Ba Dinh, Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba Trung, Hoang Mai, Long Bien and Thanh Tri, Dong Anh, and Gia Lam.

Last night, September 10, the North had a sleepless night with a series of news of the Lo River dike breaking in Tuyen Quang, the dike collapsing in Hiep Hoa District (Bac Giang), flash floods burying the entire Lang Nu village (Lao Cai), dozens of people are still missing...

The military, police and local authorities in Tuyen Quang, Bac Giang, Lao Cai… did their best to overcome the incidents, evacuate thousands of people during the night as well as search and rescue the missing people.

Hundreds of people in Quyet Thang commune (Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang) also spent a sleepless night joining hands with the authorities to fix the broken dike. Machines and human resources were mobilized to patch the broken dike.

According to local reports, as of 6 p.m. on September 10, 181 people had died or gone missing due to floods and landslides. Of these, 127 people died and 54 people went missing.

By midnight last night, thousands of Hanoi residents living outside the Red River dike, next to Long Bien Bridge, were evacuated by Ba Dinh District authorities, in the context of the Red River water continuing to rise to its highest level in the past 16 years.

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