The victims are pupils from Ly Thuong Kiet Secondary School in Bu Gia Map District.
The area where the incident happened
At around 9 am on Friday, on the way coming back home from school, a group of six boy students from Grade 9, Nguyen Ca Van Phuong, Lam Quang Duy, Nguyen Tien Dong, Tran Quoc Hau Dung, Nguyen Phi Hung and Mao Van Cao went to Phuong’s house.
Phuong and his friends took his family’s boat to sail on nearby Thac Mo Hydropower Plant’s reservoir. When they were just 10 metres away from the shore, the boat suddenly overturned.
Dung swam immediately to the shore and used a bamboo stick to save Hung and Cao. Meanwhile, the three others who failed to hold the stick went missing.
Local residents quickly jumped into the reservoir for the search, but until more than two hours later, they could find them who had died around 15 metres from the shore.
