Major news agencies around the world such as AP, AFP and Reuters onDecember 19 run articles on Vietnam's successful rescue of 12trapped workers in a collapsed hydropower plant tunnel.
AFP ofFrance reported that with tireless efforts by rescuers, the 11 men andone woman were led from the tunnel in good health. Part of the tunnel ofDa Dang-Da Chomo hydroelectric power plant in Lac Duong district, theCentral Highlands province of Lam Dong collapsed on the morning ofDecember 16 after heavy rain in the area.
The painstaking rescueefforts were slowed by more than 14 metres (45 feet) of rock and debrisblocking the rescuers from the victims, it wrote.
According tothe US news agency AP, the rescued 12 workers need medical attentionbut are in stable condition. Rescuers drilled a hole to deliver air andfood to the workers while engineering troops and miners dug a tunnel toreach them.
Meanwhile, Reuters of the UKpraised Vietnamese rescue forces’ efforts in a race against time to savethe trapped workers.
Bad weather and the complicatedgeology of the site had hampered the rescue effort since the accident,with fears the workers might not survive after battles to supply themwith oxygen and drain water rising around them, it wrote.
“Television footage showed rescue teams and workers emerging from thecollapsed tunnel and being greeted by applause, smiles and cries ofrelief after a nearly 82-hour mission that gripped the country.”
It quoted Secretary of the Lam Dong provincial Party Committee NguyenXuan Tien as saying that “there's no better joy than seeing the 12victims rescued safely. They made magic."
Othernews agencies like China’s Xinhua, Independent of the UK, andThailand's Asia Network Bangkok Post also covered Vietnam’s rescueoperation.
The 475 billion VND (22.6 million USD) plant,invested by the Civil Engineering Construction Corp. No. 5 (CIENCO 5),is designed to have a capacity of 22 MW.
Thecollapsed site is about 500 metres from the opening of the 700-m-longtunnel running though the mountain to bring water to the plant.
Thirty-two workers were in the tunnel when the collapse occurred and 20 of them were able to escape.-VNA
AFP ofFrance reported that with tireless efforts by rescuers, the 11 men andone woman were led from the tunnel in good health. Part of the tunnel ofDa Dang-Da Chomo hydroelectric power plant in Lac Duong district, theCentral Highlands province of Lam Dong collapsed on the morning ofDecember 16 after heavy rain in the area.
The painstaking rescueefforts were slowed by more than 14 metres (45 feet) of rock and debrisblocking the rescuers from the victims, it wrote.
According tothe US news agency AP, the rescued 12 workers need medical attentionbut are in stable condition. Rescuers drilled a hole to deliver air andfood to the workers while engineering troops and miners dug a tunnel toreach them.
Meanwhile, Reuters of the UKpraised Vietnamese rescue forces’ efforts in a race against time to savethe trapped workers.
Bad weather and the complicatedgeology of the site had hampered the rescue effort since the accident,with fears the workers might not survive after battles to supply themwith oxygen and drain water rising around them, it wrote.
“Television footage showed rescue teams and workers emerging from thecollapsed tunnel and being greeted by applause, smiles and cries ofrelief after a nearly 82-hour mission that gripped the country.”
It quoted Secretary of the Lam Dong provincial Party Committee NguyenXuan Tien as saying that “there's no better joy than seeing the 12victims rescued safely. They made magic."
Othernews agencies like China’s Xinhua, Independent of the UK, andThailand's Asia Network Bangkok Post also covered Vietnam’s rescueoperation.
The 475 billion VND (22.6 million USD) plant,invested by the Civil Engineering Construction Corp. No. 5 (CIENCO 5),is designed to have a capacity of 22 MW.
Thecollapsed site is about 500 metres from the opening of the 700-m-longtunnel running though the mountain to bring water to the plant.
Thirty-two workers were in the tunnel when the collapse occurred and 20 of them were able to escape.-VNA
