The Prime Minister requested to reach deeply flooded areas and provide food relief to people.

Heavy rain caused many areas in Thai Nguyen to be deeply flooded on October 7. Photo: Thanh Ha

On October 7, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 189/CD-TTg requesting ministries, branches, and localities to focus on preventing and combating floods, flash floods, landslides, and landslides in the North.

According to the dispatch, on October 7, the circulation of storm No. 11 caused heavy to very heavy rain in the Northern region and Thanh Hoa, especially in Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Lang Son and Hanoi , with total rainfall in many places being about 300-400mm, and in some places over 560mm.

On the Cau River, there was an exceptionally large flood. The water level in Thai Nguyen at 5:00 p.m. on October 7 exceeded alert level 3 by about 2.37 m, about 0.56 m higher than the historical flood in 2024, and continued to rise.

Flooding has occurred in Bac Ninh, Lang Son, Cao Bang, especially in Thai Nguyen; floods on the Thai Binh river system are rising, threatening the safety of the dike system.

To ensure the safety of people's lives and limit property damage, the Prime Minister requested the Chairmen of the People's Committees of Thai Nguyen, Lang Son, Bac Ninh, Cao Bang provinces and other localities in the Thai Binh River basin, especially Cau River and Thuong River, to proactively coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security to immediately deploy urgent measures to prevent and combat floods according to the warning level.

Focus on checking deeply flooded areas, areas at risk of landslides, flash floods, and flash floods to proactively evacuate residents (especially the elderly, children, and vulnerable groups) from dangerous areas, ensuring people's safety first and foremost.

Deploy dike protection work, ensure safety of dikes, dams, and mobilize maximum possible forces, means, and materials to promptly handle incidents from the first hour.

By all means, reach deeply flooded and isolated areas to promptly provide food relief to households at risk of famine, absolutely do not let people go hungry or thirsty.

The Minister of Agriculture and Environment directs the work of preventing and combating floods, flash floods, landslides according to his functions, tasks and authority; directs the implementation of dike protection work, ensuring dike safety, inter-reservoir operation, and ensuring the safety of irrigation dams.

The Minister of Industry and Trade proactively directed the work of ensuring the safety of hydroelectric reservoirs and ensuring safe electricity supply in flooded areas.

At the same time, closely coordinate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and relevant localities in inter-reservoir operations to ensure absolute safety of hydroelectric reservoirs, contributing to flood reduction downstream.

Ministers of the Ministries of National Defense and Public Security direct military and police forces stationed in the area to prepare necessary forces, vehicles, materials, equipment, food, and provisions, coordinate with competent agencies and local forces to deploy support for people in flood prevention and control, search and rescue, and overcome the consequences of natural disasters as quickly as possible according to local requests.

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