On January 18, Lao Cai Provincial Police announced that Captain Bui Van Duc, Deputy Head of Tong Sanh Commune Police, Bat Xat District, Lao Cai Province, died while on duty.

Previously, implementing the direction of the Director of Lao Cai Provincial Police, the plan of Bat Xat District Police on strengthening propaganda to recover weapons, explosives, support tools and the peak plan to attack the town. To suppress crime, Tong Sanh Commune Police deployed troops and achieved many important results.

On the afternoon of January 17, the Tong Sanh Commune Police Working Group consisting of 1 people led by Captain Bui Van Duc, Deputy Head of the Commune Police, conducted propaganda and campaigned to hand over weapons, explosives, and tools. support and artillery at the two families of Mr. Hoang Thong Sai (born 4) and Mr. Hoang Lao Kieu (born 2) residing in Seo Tong Sanh village.

As a result, Mr. Kieu's family voluntarily handed over one handgun and one handgun barrel. 

At about 14:30 p.m. the same day, in the shack area used to look after Mr. Sai's family's fields, the Working Group continued to discover a handgun hidden in the bushes near the shack, which Captain Bui Van Duc directly confiscated. the above gun but did not know there was bullets inside. Due to negligence, the gun went off, injuring the abdomen and chest area. 

Immediately after the incident, Captain Bui Van Duc was taken to the emergency room at Lao Cai Provincial General Hospital and Hospital 198 of the Ministry of Public Security. However, Captain Duc died at 21:50 p.m. the same day.

Currently, the police of Lao Cai province, Tong Sanh district and commune, along with departments, branches and unions, are gathering to take care of Captain Duc's funeral.