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Goodbye in explosions

When you win the battle, shoot your gun into the sky and drop the entire magazine. When a teammate dies, he says goodbye with a series of vicious bullets after filling the ground and scoring with stones. Soldiers of all countries are equal in this. I thought in my mind, and my gaze was fixed on a young soldier in his hand holding a wavebreaker pistol, his eyes always on the sky of the area looking for 13 missing people, including 11 soldiers, Major General Nguyen Van Man, Deputy Commander of Military Region 4 with 7 officers in rank, 4 officers in rank.

The search was carried out on October 14 and 15, while it is likely to stop on October 16, as heavy rains are expected. At this moment, in a place about 11 km from the ranger station 67, there is also an urgent search for 16 missing workers among the rubble of the Rao Trang hydroelectric plant 3. trapped are 17 hydroelectric workers probably now there is no one alive either

The story I tell is that on the morning of October 15, when “the amount of time” was in the hands of the army general in command at the site, more than half were considered exhausted, but no one was found yet. nobody.

In the early morning of October 15, returning to the scene at Ranger Station 67 for the second time, I was suddenly surprised to see that everyone had been fooled by the landscape of a seemingly different marshland than the day before. The entire pile is about 5,000 m wide.^two the day before, one to two meters thick turned out to be a “blister” that was fully stretched. The proof is that when getting into the mud, everyone has to put their feet up in a tree, or on a large paved rock, if they don’t want to sink into the mass that is knee deep, or even higher.

The next day, the ground like a grain gradually collapsed. Hundreds of rocks, including those weighing more than 10 tons, jutted through the mud above a person’s head. The soldiers placed the stone weighing about 5-6 tons at the entrance in a green plastic bag, a jar of incense and a plate with dried salty K17 in a green plastic bag.

The order “prohibiting filming and taking pictures, except for a few authorized reporters” continued to be broadcast over loudspeakers. That is why the guard also protects drones that can penetrate from the mountainside. But what is the crime of taking the rocks. So I keep shooting. Taken to “coincide” with the stories of witnesses who escaped death on the night of October 12 and 13. It was midnight when there was a loud “crash”, and a moment later there was a bigger explosion. General Man and his subordinate soldiers died after the explosion. Shock and devastation, possibly tens of tons of rocks falling from the top of the mountain, creating a force like an explosion.

“Battlefield” area

On the afternoon of October 15, it suddenly rained, causing the stream next to it to flood even more. The Kobelco excavator with the 484 Cienco Joint Stock Company logo continued to creep onto the scene, as if adding a large cannon, as the precious background of time dwindled. The man in the dark blue shirt continuously directs “adding a car, 2 wheels, 2 wheels”, is the Deputy Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho. Hundreds of soldiers are in the mud, each with a shovel. The following are motor vehicles.

Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Minister of National Defense was present at the advanced command meeting located at the Phong Xuan Commune People’s Committee headquarters to urge and guide from the beginning. The motto is to organize the search urgently, because by October 16 there will be heavy rains.

Searching at Ranger Station 67 is possible using motor vehicles. Also 11 km away, finding 15 missing workers in the Song Trang 3 hydroelectric operator area is even more difficult, due to the large amount of dirt and rock, the terrain is on a hill. slopes.

Reporters complained of not being able to access the place to report on the mission assigned by the newsroom, some of the brothers had to turn down the waterways to report on the search for 15 workers at the Rao Trang 3 hydroelectric power station. When they arrived at Ranger Station 67, they understood that the soldiers viewed the giant marshes as a “battlefield” area. The Parapol antenna is installed, transmitting live images to the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Hanoi. Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang, Chief of Staff, Vice Minister of National Defense supervised and led. These commanders may not want to be distracted by various information flows to speed up search time.

These stones weighing more than 10 tons destroyed everything before rolling towards the bank of the stream.

All day chewed with the soldiers. The three sniffing dogs from Middle School 24 (Border Command), after two days of searching, began to sob in the rain. Every now and then a trainer would run back to the trunk of the car and scoop a handful of bran from the 3 dogs. The Prawn Dog lies prostrate by the road. O Ra To and Poc Ka kept walking and were praised by their owners with their claws, after poking their noses into the hole in the ground, scratching their front legs to signal a strange smell. It was then that the first body was found at noon on October 15. The three shovels no longer dispersed, but instead gathered in one place, leveling and gathering dirt continuously.

At around 7:00 p.m. on October 15, the body of the last member of the 13 cadres and soldiers of the workers’ delegation buried next to a mountain was found on the ground floor of Ranger Station 67. The bodies of 13 martyrs lie together, after the terrible night of October 12. Before that, the 21-person delegation departed at 2:00 p.m. from the Phong Dien District Party Committee to enter the Song Trang 3 hydroelectric power area, where many workers are trapped and missing. At 16 o’clock, the group reached the 71 subway, stopped the car, walked and at 21 o’clock arrived at Sub-Ward 67, ranger station 67 and spent the night there …

O Ra To dog rushed towards the sniff hole, suspecting that there was someone lying underneath

People go, hats go

A familiar image of wartime soldiers, which is the hat upside down on a pistol with the bayonet turned upside down, signaling that the person was lying down, a tragic death for the country, accompanied by a series of parting bullets. On the way to the Rao Trang 3 Hydroelectric Power Station, people lay on the cold ground, but the hat would naturally slide through the mud and then get stuck in a pile of trees near the edge of the mountain. The hats are stained with mud, but the stars still shine.

The face of a soldier lowered, his eyes fixed on the ground to find traces of his comrades. He moved closer to the covers, but couldn’t get any closer. Because the hats lie in the mud up to the knees. The soldier complained about the need to better position himself, because if he failed on the 15th, it would rain and the person who lay down would not heal.

I had taken enough photos the previous afternoon, so the next day I decided to expand my research circle, find a way to the top of the mountain to observe the fall from the opposite position. The hill behind ranger station 67 appears to have been cleared by a magic wand, causing the forest to collapse, many trees falling along the way. I can only move about 500 meters, swing on each branch or sometimes under the trees full of yellow ants.

After 20 minutes, we still hadn’t reached the mountain. But from a distance, you can still glimpse the pretty high hill and get hit from the top. The wound exposed yellow clay like gunpowder. Soil flowed through the canyon, pouring over the site of Ranger Station 67, including dozens of tons of rocks.

Le Van Chuong