VietNamNet Bridge – After eight days of searching, part of the body of the first victim in the rockslide in the northern province of Thai Nguyen was found on April 23.

Foreign experts help seek rockslide victims



Mr. Vu Van Bang, Vice Chief of the Institute of Water and Environmental Technology, a member of the searching team says that a leg and hipbone of the victim, possibly a woman, was found at the depth of five meters. These body parts were decomposed.

Forensic examination will be carried out to identify the victim.

The search team keeps searching the four remaining victims.

Ten houses were buried in a rockslide that occurred in the early morning of April 15, at an earth and rock dump near the Phan Me coal mine.

Thousands of cubic meters of earth and rocks suddenly fell onto the ten houses, which were located right beneath the tip where the materials, dug out from the mine, have been dumped for years. Five people were buried, including four in the same family.

Earth and rocks mined at Phan Me have been dumped here in huge amounts during the past years, which make mountain-like heaps. Phan Me is owned by a local state-owned metal processing company.

In the latest news, four victims have been found so far.

Mai Lan