The Hanoi Green Trees Park Company is asking local authorities to help identify the people who stole flower pots which have been placed along Kim Ma Street since the North Korea-US Summit.

Flower pots are stolen from Kim Ma Street in Hanoi on March 6

According to the company, when their workers came to collect the flowers on March 6, many people had also decided to steal the flowers.

"The number of people flocking to take the flowers soon increased and they ignored our calls for them to stop," the company said.

Some video clips of the scene also went viral on social websites.

The same problem was also reported on March 6 and 7 at the Dong Dang Train Station where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's train called at during his official visit to Vietnam and attended the summit with US President Donald Trump.

Hoang Van Phong from Lang Son Provincial Water Drainage Company said that they were tasked with the decoration work for the station and had brought over 2,000 flower pots to the location.

People living around the Dong Dang Train Station in Lang Son Province also come to steal the flowers on March 6 and 7. Photo by Tien Phong

"We're going to take care of it as decorations for future events after the summit but now most of them have been stolen while the remainder were destroyed," Phong said.

A woman brings the flowers she steals at Dong Dang Train Station to a truck on March 7. Photo by Tien Phong

Lawyer Truong Anh Tu from Hanoi Bar Association said that the people identified as stealing the flowers could face fines from VND 1-2 million for theft.

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