Pham Bich Diep, a grade-6 pupil at Hung Thang Secondary School was swept into a drain near her school while trying to ride her bicycle from the school to her home this morning.
Luckily, some local people saved her, but the bicycle got stuck in the drain.
The drain area where Diep was saved
The drain has since been fenced.
Torrential rains have occurred to some localities in Quang Ninh Province since the evening of August 12. Three communes namely Dap Thanh, Luong Mong and Minh Cam in Ba Che District have been isolated due to the flooding.
On August 13, Hoanh Bo District also faced a flash flood which caused landslides on more than 2,000 cubic metres of road, damaging nearly one hectare of paddy rice.
At a meeting in Quang Ninh Province, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Long criticised the local Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue Standing Board for slow responses to the flooding.
The board did not know clearly about what happened to the localities after the heavy rains as of this morning.
