President visits and presents gifts to families affected by flash floods in Lao Cai

On the afternoon of September 22, President Vo Van Thuong visited the scene, visited and presented gifts to families with casualties after the flash flood in Lien Minh commune, Sa Pa town, Lao Cai province. This was a historic flood, causing particularly serious damage, leaving 5 people dead and 2 missing. According to local people, it has been decades since such a sudden, large-scale flood occurred and caused such heavy damage.

Lien Minh is a poor commune of Sa Pa town, Lao Cai province with 4/7 villages in extremely difficult circumstances. The whole commune has 3,739 people, 5 ethnic groups living (Dao people have the highest proportion); of which there are 168 poor households, 255 near-poor households.

The flood that occurred from the night of September 12, 2023 to the early morning of September 13, 2023 killed 5 people, left 2 missing and injured 7 others. Some households suffered severe damage to their homes. The productive land of about 200 households was severely damaged. The functional forces of the commune are still maintaining about 300 people to search for the missing people. The scene where the flash flood occurred is being urgently remediated. The three seriously affected points are the headwaters of Nam Cang, Nam Than and Nam Pa streams.

After the flood, the two main sectors of aquaculture and homestay tourism of many households in Lien Minh commune were severely damaged; especially aquaculture facilities suffered damage of about 250 billion VND. Many central ministries, branches, local authorities and organizations have made efforts to help the people of the commune overcome the damage. However, many households are still facing difficulties because they have devoted all their resources to aquaculture and tourism investment, and suffered great damage after the flood. People wish to have their debts deferred and re-borrowed and continue to borrow for reinvestment.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders,President Vo Van Thuong sent his deepest condolences to the families who suffered pain and loss due to the deaths or missing people as a result of the flood. Visiting, encouraging and sharing with the people about the great loss of life and property caused by the flood, President Vo Van Thuong requested the local authorities to continue mobilizing search and rescue forces; encourage and help the affected families and count the damage to urgently support the people after the flood.

Regarding the flood causing disruption of production and tourism services of many households in Lien Minh commune, making people's lives difficult, the President shared the aspirations and proposals of the people; at the same time, he requested Lao Cai province to work with relevant units to find solutions to meet the people's legitimate aspirations.

Referring to the heroic tradition of Lien Minh commune, the ethnic people here are always industrious, hard-working, and have many initiatives in economic development, such as aquaculture, organizing homestays, improving and enhancing their lives. The President hopes that, with the support of the local government and the community, the people will continue to strive to overcome difficulties to soon stabilize their lives; return to work and develop the economy as before.

President Vo Van Thuong presented gifts and encouraged people in Lien Minh commune who suffered heavy losses due to the flood. On this occasion, a number of organizations and individuals also supported and provided material and financial support to help people in the commune overcome the consequences of the natural disaster./.

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