Grim task: Military personnel being deployed to search for missing people at a site of a landslide near a hydropower dam in Thua Thien Hue province. — Reuters
Authorities deployed helicopters and soldiers to search for dozens of people feared dead in two catastrophic landslides near a hydropower dam, triggered by adverse weather that aid groups warned could overwhelm the most resilient communities.
The first of hundreds of rescuers with boats and army vehicles battled through blocked roads to reach the dam site in the remote mountainous area of central Vietnam early yesterday, hoping to find survivors among at least 30 people missing after Monday’s mudslides.
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