More than 20 cars parked on the pavement around an apartment building in Hanoi had their tyres damaged on April 9.
According to some local people, some residents of the HH Linh Dam Apartment Building in Hoang Mai District came to take their car at 7.30 am on April 10 to find that their tyres had been slashed.
Nguyen Tien Trung, owner of one of the attacked cars said that he and many other residents of the building had to park along the pavement of Nguyen Phan Chanh Street because there was not enough parking space in the building.
"We've found that more than 20 cars were damaged in the same way," he said. "It seemed that someone had cut the tyres with a knife. The cuts are between 1.5-2 cm."
A representative at Hoang Liet Ward People's Committee said that they were investigating the case. Local authorities have also issued fines on illegal parking on the pavement here but the situation is still continuing.
This was not the first time that cars parking on Hanoi streets were damaged. More than 10 cars were recently splashed with paint while parking on a road in Trung Van Urban Area in Nam Tu Liem District. Many cars of residents in the TT19 Apartment Building in Ha Dong District also found paint splashes on their vehicles while parking in front of their houses.
It is common to see many building apartments in Hanoi face shortages of parking space. According to the Hanoi Department of Transport, Hanoi is home to around 6.9 million cars and motorbikes, but the city has only 90 hectares of parking space, which only meets just 10 percent of the demand.
