Soldier adopts three children orphaned by Covid-19

Arms wide open: Kien (right) with Chau in Thu Duc City. — Vietnam News/ANN

Major Nguyen Trung Kien, a military officer of Thu Duc City’s Military Command, has adopted three children orphaned by Covid-19 in HCM City.

Kien said he felt extreme sorrow when the four-year-old girl welcomed him as he brought the ashes of her mother, who died of Covid-19, to the woman’s rented room in the city’s Tan Phu Ward on Aug 8.