Head of the Bac Can provincial Police presents gifts to the flood-hit families.

Nhan Dan Online/VNA - The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) has extended sympathy and aid in cash to families of the dead or missing people in the recently hit floods in the northern mountainous provinces of Bac Kan, Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Son La, Lai Chau and Lao Cai.

The VFF’s Hanoi chapter and people of the capital city have also sent VND 600 million in aid to flood-hit regions.

Of the total, Bac Kan province will receive VND 200 million, and Cao Bang, Ha Giang, Lai Chau and Lao Cai provinces, VND 100 million each.

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) has decided to donate money to build houses and present them to 30 households whose houses were washed away by the flood or destroyed by the landslide caused by heavy rains in Bac Kan, Cao Bang and Lai Chau provinces.

Each of these houses is worth around VND 30 million raised by the group’s staff. Beneficiaries are 16 households in Bac Kan province including 5 households of over 10 victims caused by the landslide in Khen Leu hamlet, Cong Bang commune, Pac Nam district), 11 households in Cao Bang province and 3 others in Lai Chau province.

Le Minh Hong, Deputy General Director of the Petrovietnam said that the group would soon co-ordinate with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, the Vietnam Red Cross Association and the local authorities to deploy the construction of the above-said 30 houses to help the locals stabilise their lives.

Sodiers help the locals in Cao Bang province to overcome flood-aftermath.

According to the latest report of the National Steering Committee on Flood and Storm Prevention and Control, flood and torrential rains in recent days in the northern mountainous provinces have claimed 18 lives (seven in Ha Giang, four in Bac Kan , three in Cao Bang, two in Lao Cai and one each in Son La and Lai Chau).

The flood also left two people in Cao Bang and nine others missing in Bac Kan.

It has pulled down 40 houses, inundated 756 others and more than 600 hectares of rice and farm produce.