The victim's bodies had been retrieved at the Song Bo forest rangers’ office in Phong Dien District as of 7:30 pm on Thursday.
The area where the 13 rescue members were found dead
The rescue team included Major General Nguyen Van Man, Deputy Commander of the Military Region 4, and Chairman of the Phong Dien district People's Committee Nguyen Van Binh.
The 13 were part of a 21-member rescue team set up on October 12 to rescue workers buried by another landslide on a construction site near the Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant, around 13 kilometres from the Song Bo forest rangers’ office.
They stopped there for a rest for the night and a landslide hit the station at midnight and only eight of them successfully managed to escape from the site.
Military Region 4 will hold a memorial service for the dead at Military Hospital 268 in Hue City on Sunday, October 18.
The government has agreed on recognising them as having died in the course of their duty as well as army rank promotion for them.
