Phu Yen Police help local people overcome flood consequences

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Highly appreciating the members of the Youth Union organization of the Phu Yen Police, Mr. Phan Chi Linh, Quang Thinh, village headman said: "Without the timely assistance of the police officers, the inter-village road would have still remained divided as it would have taken days and nights for local people to clear off the slid soil and rocks."

Police officers helping local people to clean up a road.

Senior Lieutenant Pham Van Thinh, Secretary of the Youth Union branch of the Mobile Police Division under the Phu Yen Police said, “Every police officer is willing to help local people. This is also an opportunity for them to experience the reality and to share difficulties with local people as well as to present the sentiment and responsibility of the people’s police.”

Earlier, on November 6, dozens of officers of the Phu Yen Police and youths of the Tuy Hoa Municipal Youth Union Committee also supported local people in cleaning up roads and living environment in flooded areas, helping them settle down their lives.

Youth Union organization of the Phu Yen Police handing fifts to people.

Tons of mud, trash, broken trees were moved away to the waste processing place.

The same day, the Youth Union organization of the Phu Yen Police in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Television and the Phu Yen Radio and Television handed 468 gifts worth VND240 million to people suffering difficulties and losses to recent floods, in Xuan Quang 1, Xuan Quang 3, Xuan Phuoc - Dong Xuan; An Nghiep, An Dan communes, Tuy An district.

According to the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue, the recent flooding inundated more than 9,600 houses, pulled down 10 houses while dozens of roads and hectares of crops were still submerged in the water. The losses were initially valued at hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dongs.