Hundreds of schools in Hue City submerged in floodwaters
GD&TĐ - The historic flood in Hue City has caused many schools in Hue City to be heavily flooded in recent days.
Báo Giáo dục và Thời đại•30/10/2025
In recent days, heavy rains combined with floodwaters from upstream have caused the water levels of rivers to rise rapidly, causing severe flooding in many places, especially in residential areas along the Huong and Bo rivers. In this situation, the Department of Education and Training of Hue City has decided to allow nearly 295,000 students from kindergarten to grade 12 to stay home from school from October 27. The image of the flood was taken at Thuy Thanh 2 Kindergarten (Thanh Thuy ward), the water is so deep that they have to travel by boat. Currently, Hue City continues to have heavy rain, the total rainfall is very large, the reservoirs continue to discharge water, causing the area and level of flooding to not decrease. The image was recorded at Phu Duong Kindergarten (Duong No ward), the flood water heavily inundated the entire school. Some low-lying schools in Hoa Chau and Dan Dien wards are deeply flooded, students still cannot go to school. Floodwaters surrounded the kitchen area of Phu Mau 1 Kindergarten. On October 26, teachers proactively closed classrooms and moved things to higher ground to avoid floods. The historic flood on October 27 and 28 caused massive flooding. According to initial estimates, hundreds of schools in Hue City were severely inundated. Phu Duong Kindergarten, campus 2 Luu Khanh (Duong No ward) was still heavily flooded on the morning of October 29. A kindergarten in Hue City took advantage of the opportunity to clean up floodwaters on the morning of October 29. While preparing to continue cleaning the school on the afternoon of October 29, flood water in Hue City suddenly rose. Schools are required to review and reinforce their facilities and be on duty during this time to proactively respond. When the weather stabilizes, schools must make up for lost classes.
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