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Student who drowned while saving three people to be honoured

Exhausted after pulling three students safely from the water, a 23-year-old man drowned at a beach in Phu Vang District, Thua Thien - Hue Province last Friday.

Three tourists drown in Quy Nhon beach

Three tourists have drowned while swimming at a beach in Quy Nhon City.

Woman and three children drown in Hoa Binh stream

A woman and her three small children have been found dead in a stream in the northern province of Hoa Binh in a suspected suicide case.

Three children in Kien Giang drowned at construction site

Three children in the southern province of Kien Giang have drowned in a pond of a local construction site.

Five young victims drown

Five young girls were found dead in a local river in the central province of Quang Bình in a single day. The five victims drowned in two separate incidents on Thursday.

Serial floods drown Tet bonanza dreams

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hoa mai and hoa dao, one yellow and the other pink, are without doubt the two most important, auspicious flowers in Viet Nam.

Five students drown in Nghe An Province

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five students reportedly drowned in three districts of central Nghe An Province yesterday afternoon.

‘Drown’ vulnerability threatening computer systems

The Bach Khoa Anti-virus Center (BKAV), the leading internet security group, has warned that hundreds of important systems in Vietnam are at risk of having clients’ information stolen through vulnerability Drown on websites using https protocol. 

Boat-race participant who drowned could not swim

 VietNamNet Bridge - A young man from the central province of Quang Tri participated in a boat race in his village festival and drowned after falling into Vinh Dinh River.

Swimmer drowns

 VietNamNet Bridge – An expert swimmer who had won many awards in the southern province of Tra Vinh was reported to have drowned in HCM City on Saturday, April 6.

Bodies of five students found beneath the sand in Dak Lak

 VietNamNet Bridge – Going to a stream to catch fish, a man discovered a human arm on the ground, next to four pairs of sandals. The police then detected the bodies of five students buried under sand.

Schools’ conditions not good enough to teach children to swim

 VietNamNet Bridge – Every teacher has to take care of 30-50 children during swimming lessons. The current modest teaching staff cannot provide safe swimming lessons to primary and secondary students.

Mother and two children drown in boat capsize

 VietNamNet Bridge – The boat moved to the middle of the river and suddenly overturned. Only six of the nine people on the boat were rescued.

15-year-old boy saves 5 kids from drowning

VietNamNet Bridge - Swimming across the river to round up buffaloes, five little girls became exhausted midstream when they swam back. Hearing the shouts, a 15-year-old boy jumped into the water to save the five kids.

Eight Vietnamese children die from accidents every day

VietNamNet Bridge - According to the Agency for Child Protection and Care, every day there are 7-8 children who die of accidents. The annual average number is up to 6,000-7,000, with summer as the peak season.

Dak Lak: Four kids drowned in reservoir

 VietNamNet Bridge - Bathing in the Sre Pork hydroelectric reservoir after school, five sixth grade students were swept into a deep hole but only one kid could escape.

Teenager drowns after saving pupils

Exhausted after pulling five students to the riverbank safely, a 19-year-old boy drowned in the Lam River in central Nghe An Province on Tuesday.

Family claims compensation from local government for their son’s death

Dozens of people brought the body of an 8th grader, who was drowned by falling into a hole left by a titanium exploring firm, to the office of My Thanh Commune People’s Committee, Binh Dinh province, to claim $25,000 of compensation.