As the central provinces have yet to recover from the recent major flooding, new disaster has struck at stronger force.
The whole district of Huong Khe has been covered with water.
Local people and officials in Ha Tinh Province said the new flood is the worst the province had experienced in the last 100 years. The whole district of Huong Khe has been covered with water. The lives of thousands of people are at risk.
As floods hit too fast, a large number of people could not react and have been trapped in their flooded houses, on the rooftops or even on trees. Others rushed to the Ho Chi Minh Trail to evacuate to higher grounds.
Travelling on one of the rescue boats that local authority sent out to seek trapped victims, we could hear many voices asking for help. At 14:30 October 16, we reached Phu Huong Village, Phu Xuan Commune, where 12 construction workers had been isolated since the previous night. They were all soaked, cold, hungry and terrified.
At 19:00, we were talking on the phone with Tran Thi Ha, Chairwoman of Phuc Trach Commune People\'s Committee. She said water had almost overflown her desk in her office. She had to step on it to coordinate evacuation efforts for her commune.
In Quang Binh Province, 10,000 people had to evacuate during the night of October 16. 6 out of the province\'s 7 districts, which were hit by major flooding just a week ago, had been put back under water. In Minh Hoa District\'s Tan Hoa and Minh Hoa communes, 100% houses have been flooded again.
Cao Thanh Binh, Tan Hoa Commune\'s Party Secretary, said: "If houses are flooded to their rooftops, people will have to use boats to come back to the stone caves where they had lived in the last week to stay away from the previous floods."
Train tracks have been flooded
Many people in Ha Tinh Province took to the Ho Chi Minh Trail to seek higher grounds
Emergency teams preparing to provide help
One of the 12 construction workers who were rescued
Flood water almost reached the rooftops of many houses
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