Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked competentagencies and forces to issue more warnings and instructions to help local residentstake proactive measures against natural disasters.
He issued a telegraph requesting ministries and committees concerned tofocus on rebuilding efforts after torrential downpour triggered by a tropicaldepression caused big losses in humans and property in the south-centralregion, especially Khanh Hoa province on November 18.
He asked the people’s committees of these provinces and Khanh Hoaprovince to search for missing people, treat the injured, support families ofthe deceased, and provide shelters and food for those in affected areas.
The leader asked competent agencies and forces to continue examining areasprone to landslides and flash flood so they can proactively evacuate localpeople to safer places as the weather forecasting agency said rains and floodsmay be occurring complicatedly and there are high risks of landslides, flash flood,and flooding in the south-central provinces.
In the document, he sent his condolences to families of the victims oflandslides and floods.
Torrential downpour caused by a tropical depression killed 14 people andinjured 11 others in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, while fourpeople went missing as of 14:00 on November 19.
The tropical pressure originated from the weakened Storm Toraji. Therainfall in Khanh Hoa was measured at between 30 mm – 200 mm on November 17-18.In particular, Nha Trang city reports rainfalls of 380 mm.
Forty-three houses were pulled down or damaged by severe floods.
At a press conference in Hanoi on November 19, Nguyen Truong Son, deputychief of the General Department of National Disaster Prevention and Control,pointed out Khanh Hoa province has paid inadequate heeds to the prevention andcontrol of natural disasters in its socio-economic development plan.
It is a must to increase communications to raise people’s awareness and skillsin actively dealing with storms, post-storm floods, flash floods, andlandslides, he said.
Local authority’s role and responsibility in responding to natural disasters ingeneral and landslides in particular need to be heightened, he added.
A working delegation led by Hoang Van Thang, Deputy Minister of Agriculture andRural Development and Standing Vice Head of the Central Steering Committee forNatural Disaster Prevention and Control arrived in Khanh Hoa to instructpost-disaster work.-VNA
He issued a telegraph requesting ministries and committees concerned tofocus on rebuilding efforts after torrential downpour triggered by a tropicaldepression caused big losses in humans and property in the south-centralregion, especially Khanh Hoa province on November 18.
He asked the people’s committees of these provinces and Khanh Hoaprovince to search for missing people, treat the injured, support families ofthe deceased, and provide shelters and food for those in affected areas.
The leader asked competent agencies and forces to continue examining areasprone to landslides and flash flood so they can proactively evacuate localpeople to safer places as the weather forecasting agency said rains and floodsmay be occurring complicatedly and there are high risks of landslides, flash flood,and flooding in the south-central provinces.
In the document, he sent his condolences to families of the victims oflandslides and floods.
Torrential downpour caused by a tropical depression killed 14 people andinjured 11 others in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, while fourpeople went missing as of 14:00 on November 19.
The tropical pressure originated from the weakened Storm Toraji. Therainfall in Khanh Hoa was measured at between 30 mm – 200 mm on November 17-18.In particular, Nha Trang city reports rainfalls of 380 mm.
Forty-three houses were pulled down or damaged by severe floods.
At a press conference in Hanoi on November 19, Nguyen Truong Son, deputychief of the General Department of National Disaster Prevention and Control,pointed out Khanh Hoa province has paid inadequate heeds to the prevention andcontrol of natural disasters in its socio-economic development plan.
It is a must to increase communications to raise people’s awareness and skillsin actively dealing with storms, post-storm floods, flash floods, andlandslides, he said.
Local authority’s role and responsibility in responding to natural disasters ingeneral and landslides in particular need to be heightened, he added.
A working delegation led by Hoang Van Thang, Deputy Minister of Agriculture andRural Development and Standing Vice Head of the Central Steering Committee forNatural Disaster Prevention and Control arrived in Khanh Hoa to instructpost-disaster work.-VNA
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