In the past three days, while people are preparing to welcome a joyful Tet, the government and people of Phong Dien district. Can Tho turned to worry about moving people away from landslides.
About 10 o'clock on February 14, the embankment of Phong Dien market, Phong Dien district (Can Tho city) has seriously landslide and made all 16 kiosks sell Tet holiday melon lying beside the collapsed embankment. all underground, nearly 4 meters from the road surface.
Particularly the embankment subsided and drifted to the river bank with a length of more than 100 meters. Subsequently, during the two days of February 15 and 16, the embankment continued to be severely eroded. Local authorities had to relocate nearly 100 affected households urgently due to landslides and relocation.
Mr. Bui Van Da, Chairman of Nhon Ai Commune People's Committee, said: Currently there are no plans for households affected by the landslide. The authorities are taking care of their accommodation, transporting their belongings, relocating people to other places safely, sending forces to be on duty 24/24, until there is no landslide.
Some houses were swept into the river due to landslides (Photo: TTO)
The local government had to stop the road nearly 800 meters due to fear of danger for people passing by here, forced to maneuver 4 ferries to transport people through this dangerous area.
According to our research, this embankment project has a length of 750 meters with an investment cost of up to 13 billion VND, which has just been completed less than a month ago, has yet to be accepted. Yesterday afternoon, witnessing on the spot we saw that a section of nearly 200m long embankment was subsided, broke and collapsed completely into the river. Some houses were sunk into the river due to lying next to the embankment area.
Next to the embankment, the floor, the walls of nearly 100 households have been cracked and subsided. This area is Phong Dien market so the trading life of people is affected very much, especially on the days of Tet.
Road surface also shows signs of dangerous cracks, this road is very crowded with traffic and has just been upgraded and repaired.
The embankment of Phong Dien continued to be eroded for a length of nearly 200m. (Photo: TTO)
PHUONG NGUYEN
