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Going to play soccer on their birthday, 3 students were swept away by water

At noon on May 2, the police force for fire prevention and rescue continued to search for a missing male student after taking a bath in the North Phan Thiet flood drainage canal, Xuan An ward, City. Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan province.

Previously, on the afternoon of May 1, a group of 8 grade 7 students in Phan Thiet invited each other to play in the upstream area of ​​the North Phan Thiet flood drainage canal, Xuan An ward, about 1km from Ben Loi bridge. Due to prolonged heavy rain in the late afternoon of April 30 and early morning of May 1, the water on the source flows back through the flood drainage channel very strongly.

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Noon 2-5, the rescue force is still actively searching for the missing student.

After a while, hearing the shouts, people ran to the area of ​​​​the flood drainage canal in North Phan Thiet, and discovered 3 students struggling in the middle of the canal when the water was flowing very strongly. Two students managed to swim and were rescued ashore. And Thai Van Duong (born in 2009, a student at Nguyen Trai Secondary School) was swept away by water.

According to this group of students, at the time of the incident, all three students were sitting on the steps on the embankment of the Ben Loi River, kicking with their feet when they suddenly fell into the river.

Duong’s family said that May 1 is her birthday and the whole family arranged to go to the supermarket in the evening. In the afternoon of the same day, Duong’s group of friends asked their family to go play football and then this heartbreaking incident happened.

Receiving the news, on the afternoon of May 1, the police force for fire prevention, fighting and rescue deployed to search for the missing victim. However, due to the dark, the search was not effective, on the morning of May 2, this force continued to search and expand the search area downstream of the North Phan Thiet flood drainage channel.

In recent days, due to the influence of the low pressure area on the East Sea, many southern provinces have received heavy rain. On the afternoon of May 1, 4 students in grade 11 died while taking a bath and were swept away by flood water on the Dong Nai river (Dong Nai commune, Bu Dang district, Binh Phuoc province).

According to a report by the Department of Children (Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs) at the end of 2020, drowning is one of the leading causes of death for Vietnamese children aged 2-15, when there are over 2,000 children die from drowning each year in Vietnam.

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