More than 5,000 households lost power due to floods.

QTO - Information from the Provincial Civil Defense Command on the afternoon of November 17 said that in the past 2 days, Quang Tri province has had moderate to heavy rain, and very heavy rain in the southern mountainous areas. Water levels on rivers have risen above alert level II, causing flooding in many localities.

Statistics show that the whole province has 86 flooded and isolated points; 1,416 households/5,479 people were flooded in the communes of Huong Hiep, Nam Hai Lang, Ba Long, Ta Rut, Quang Tri , Trieu Phong; 5 landslide points on provincial roads through the communes of La Lay, Huong Hiep; 3 schools had to close in the communes of Nam Hai Lang and Ba Long; more than 5,130 households lost power in the communes of Trieu Phong, Khe Sanh, Dakrong, Huong Hiep and Ba Long.

Many traffic routes were flooded and cut off.

To proactively respond to floods, the whole province has organized the evacuation of 364 households/1,259 people in the communes of Huong Phung, Ba Long, Dakrong, Ta Rut, Khe Sanh, Quang Tri and Trieu Phong.

The flood caused 1 person to go missing in La Lay commune (Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, born in 1977, residing in Ba Don ward, drove a truck with license plate 75H 00713 through a spillway and was swept away); 3 houses were damaged by landslides; 41 livestock and poultry of various kinds in Huong Hiep commune were swept away.

In La Lay commune, the riverbank in A Bung village was eroded, a rural traffic route eroded more than half of the road surface. In Khe Sanh commune, there were 2 landslides at the foot of the bridge in Ruong village, Block 6 and the edge of the Block 6 bridge. In La Lay commune, the section Km9+400 of National Highway 15D was eroded, causing traffic disruption, with about ^{15m3 of} rock and soil spilling onto the road. In Ba Long commune, 2 motorboats sank, 3 cars were flooded.

Nguyen Hoang

Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/xa-hoi/202511/hon-5000-ho-dan-bi-mat-dien-do-mua-lu-f7e31e5/