Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung inspects search for flooding victims in Quang Nam
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| Leaders of local police brief Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung about the current storms and floods. |
Major General Le Quoc Hung, Deputy Minister of Public Security, on October 3 had a meeting with the police force in Nam Tra My district, Quang Nam province to review the work of rescue and search for missing victims and overcoming the consequences caused by floods and landslides following Typhoon No. 9.
Under the direction of the Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee, all police officers and soldiers of Nam Tra My district had been put on alert around the clock before the landfall of the storm.
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| Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung hands some equipment and materials for storm prevention to the People's Committee and police of Nam Tra My district. |
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| Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung presents gifts to the Tra Leng communal police. |
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| Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung hands some equipment and materials for storm prevention to the People's Committee and police of Nam Tra My district. |
Local police forces then coordinated with other functional forces to evacuate 213 households with 901 people to concentration shelters and move 78 households with 381 people living in landslide-prone and flood-hit areas to take refuge in safer houses.
They also arranged 15 workers at the 110Kv national power line project to shelter at the Culture and Sports Center of Nam Tra My district while supporting people to consolidate their houses against the storm.
Immediately after a flash flood swept away many houses at the Ong De summit on October 28, the police of Nam Tra My district and Tra Leng commune deployed their forces to the site together with local military forces to search for the victims from the debris.
The Director of the Quang Nam Provincial Police Department also sent professional rescuers and nearly 20 canoes to Tra Leng to support the military and on-spot local forces to search for missing people.
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| Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung speaks at the meeting with Bac Tra My district police on their plans to coordinate and support the Nam Tra My district police. |
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Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung checks the natural disaster response capabilities of the Battalion 3 under the Central Region Mobile Police Regiment. |
Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung showed empathy for the difficulties of the local police forces and agreed to equip the Nam Tra My district police with one boat as well as some facilities and equipment for their future search and rescue of flooding victims in mountainous areas.
On behalf of the Ministry of Public Security, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung presented the People's Committee and the police force of Nam Tra My district with some equipment for disaster response.
* On the same day, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung and the delegation visited and worked with the police force in Bac Tra My district. The Deputy Minister and his entourage also checked the readiness for natural disasters at Battalion 3 (under the Central Region Mobile Police Regiment) stationed in Thang Binh, Quang Nam.
The Deputy Minister asked the Quang Nam Provincial Police Department to promptly praised units and individuals who had exerted all-out efforts in rescue and search missions as well as in supporting local people during the storms and floods.
