Gov’t chief decides urgent aid for flood-hit provinces
VGP – The PM this morning delivered an urgent notice requiring the Minister of Finance to immediately allocate 2,000 tons of rice and VND 200 billion for local people in Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình Provinces in Central Việt Nam.
Thousands
of houses in Hương Khê District of Hà Tĩnh
Province submerged by flood – Photo: Tuoitre.vn
As reported by the Office
of Government, by the October 17 morning, in Hà Tĩnh, one people died and
another was injured by severe floods. The province’s 35,430 houses were
submerged; all 22 communes in Hương Khê District, 12 communes in Vũ Quang District
and 16 communes in Hà Tĩnh City were flooded completely.
Torrential rains and floods
also sank 13,792 houses in four districts of Tuyên Hóa, Minh Hóa, Lệ Thủy, and Quảng
Ninh in
Water reservoirs in these
two provinces are still kept in safety.
