Group of tourists swept away by floods: Body found at accident site | Society



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On the afternoon of December 1, Mr. Su Thanh Hoai, chairman of the Lac Duong District People’s Committee, said that around 1:30 p.m. this afternoon, the rescue team found the body of a tourist right in the place where the victim was injured.

Before that, in the early afternoon of November 29, 5 tourists and the group in charge returned home after the expedition to Bidoup National Park – Nui Ba, to conquer Mount Bidoup (2287 m above sea level) . As the group of tourists passed the suspension bridge over the Klong Klanh stream, the bridge suddenly collapsed.

The group guide took 1 tourist to the shore, the last 2 after being dragged by the water for about 200m, fortunately, she was able to grab onto a tree branch and then climbed a tree to await rescue, 2 visitors female in the middle sank, disappeared.

Lac Duong District and Lam Dong Province mobilized more than 200 people to participate in the rescue, including local military forces, the provincial and district fire prevention and rescue team, the fire prevention and control team of the town of Lac. Duong, Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park staff and staff.

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Rescue forces tried to find.

This rescue force has divided into many nests, using a rubber boat down the Klong Lanh stream, diving to find the missing. After a day and a half of ineffective and strenuous searching, some experienced drowning victims identified that it was possible that the victims were trapped on the suspension bridge where they fell.

A search team deployed a dive force to search around this collapsed bridge and found the body of a victim. This tourist was trapped in the hammock on the suspension bridge. When the bridge collapsed and sank, the hammock was located under the bridge.

Mr. Su Thanh Hoai said that the victim’s body was currently taken to the Da Chais commune health station, waiting for the victims’ relatives to come and identify them.

Also according to the chairman of the Lac Duong District People’s Committee, due to the rain that lasted the last 3 days, the water level in the Klong Klanh stream is very high, the suspension bridge is submerged up to 5 m above the surface creek, making rescue work difficult. . However, hundreds of people are still trying to find the second victim.

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Spring water rises, muddy.

How Tien Phong Reportedly, out of 6 people washed away by flooding on the Klong Klanh suspension bridge, 2 people swam ashore, 2 climbed a tree and were rescued by rescuers, only 2 female tourists (31 years old) and the SFE (28 years old). , who lives in Ho Chi Minh City) was razed by the country.

According to rescuers and relatives of the two victims, they all know how to swim, but perhaps because they are entangled in obstacles in the creek bed, they cannot emerge and drown.

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Branches, grass and trash covered the sunken bridge.



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