The landslide at the Dak Mi 2 hydroelectric power station: I don’t think I’ll come back alive

Overview of the Dak Mi 2 hydroelectric project where workers are isolated – Photo: TRUONG TRUNG

Hold your breath to hear the rock fall

Upon arriving at the Phuoc Thanh Commune Community Activity House, Ms. Ta Thi Tu, who cooks for the group of workers, is still not terrified. Ms. Tu immediately borrowed the phone to call her relatives and announced, “I’m alive.”

The day Typhoon No. 9 hit the continent, she and her workers did not think about the horrible scene, because that morning in the high mountains it was clear. After lunch, it started to rain. Although there is no wind, but looking upstream from the Dak Mi 2, the sky is still gray.

“It wasn’t until a few hours that the water gushed up from the river rushing in. At one point when we looked down, we couldn’t see any concrete mixer trucks. The mountain fell a lot, the water mixed with the red mud was so red we had to look closely to get out. ” .

Towards darkness, the water from the river upstream to this river confluence area flows and suddenly pulls on a bridge. Several resourceful workers rushed to a nearby truck to get some oil to prepare for the night without power when suddenly the rocky slope rolled loudly. Thus, from the confluence of this river with views of the mountainside on both sides, the red streaks of earth and rock are evident against the green background.

But dusk is the disaster that tortures the workers here when the rocks on the side of the camp collapsed and closed the siege, leaving the group of 30 workers isolated.

“Throughout the night no one dared to lie down because everyone was in a running position. Thinking like that, they didn’t know where to run in the middle of the dark night because both sides of the mountain collapsed, the river in front of them” – Mr. Vu Dinh Quynh, Song Da Corporation 6.05 worker, drawing a “C” shape surrounded by mountains.

The remaining gap is the roaring water of the Dak Mi River.

Worker camps alongside a series of landslides – Photo: TRUONG TRUNG

Do not believe again alive

During the night, everyone held their breath, prayed, and listened … to the sound of a mountain landslide. There are many workers who are over 50 but still cry like children from the torture that took place with violence on the mountainside.

“There have been so many landslides in Rao Trang, Huong Hoa, so in my mind I have enough scenes to think about. Many times I tremble and I am afraid, I think it would be better to fall once and know nothing than to sit in the dark and listen rocks fall like thunder into your ear “- Quynh shuddered.

The white night waiting for “death knocked on the door”, the rain began to stop. Groups of workers tried to contact the surrounding hut, but all directions were blocked.

People rushed to find a way to cross the landslide to verify the life and death situation of the workers in the deep deep mountains.

All that morning, people were searching for ropes to move from camp to camp in the Monkey Bridge area.

Workers escaped death, cleared forests, landslides and returned to the center of Phuoc Cong commune – Photo: TRUONG TRUNG

After consulting, they all decided not to stay one more night because they were afraid it would rain. At noon, groups of workers began to find their way back to Phuoc Cong commune.

“Passing the loading points and the mud reaches the groin, but we try to encourage each other. After five hours in the community center, we know that we are … still alive” – ​​Ms Phan Thi Vy Hau, the supporter for the group of workers, he said.

Rolling water flowing from the Dak Mi 2 river isolated many workers – Photo: TRUONG TRUNG

60 hydroelectric workers were rescued by oscillating pulleys

TTO – At 20pm on October 30, the representative of Agrita Quang Nam Energy Joint Stock Company, the investor of the Dak Mi 2 hydroelectric project, said that there were about 60 workers working on the Dak Mi 2 hydroelectric project during the day (Phuoc Son) was rescued with a pulley.