Female environmental worker murdered with sidewalk bricks
Ms. Vu Thuy Ha, 44 years old, was bending down to push a garbage cart when suddenly Le Nhu Toan approached her, grabbed a sidewalk brick and hit her in the back of the neck.
Ms. Hoang Thi Binh, 55 years old, the head of the Dich Vong night shift garbage collection team, said that after the roll call, Ms. Ha holds a gong and walks along five alleys on Tran Quy Kien Street and one alley on Tran Dang Ninh Street to notify families to take out the garbage. According to the assignment, every day she has to collect garbage and clean these six alleys.
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| The scene of the incident. |
At 9 p.m., it was pouring rain and the wind was blowing hard. Ms. Ha and her colleagues urged each other to push the last garbage trucks to the collection point to be lifted onto the truck. Most of them were middle-aged women, whose main income had been collecting garbage for many years.
Seeing her being Toanattackin front of the Discovery Complex building in Cau Giay district and unconscious, a motorbike taxi driver shouted loudly "killed someone, help". Working nearby, Ms. Binh heard about the incident and when she arrived, she saw Ms. Ha collapsed in a pool of blood.Ms. Ha has been working as an environmental sanitation worker for over 10 years but in many companies. More than two years ago, she transferred to Vinh Yen Company and was assigned to Ms. Binh's night shift.
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| The subject was arrested. |
Ms. Ha’s work lasts from 10 to 14 hours depending on the amount of trash. Collecting trash in the alleys ends at 9 p.m., she continues to sweep the streets, picking up litter from 300 to 420 Cau Giay Street. Normally, each shift, she has to push 5 to 7 garbage trucks weighing more than 100 kg from the alley to the collection point about 500 meters away to transfer to a specialized vehicle.
Recently, she brought her 20-year-old niece along to teach her the job. "Although this is hard work, Ha has never complained or shown any signs of discouragement," said the team leader.
At noon on April 5, the funeral was held at the Duc Dien ward funeral home. People wearing black shirts and carrying white wreaths lined up to pay their respects to the short-lived female garbage collector.
A relative said that she is not married and lives alone in a small house next to her parents. A few years ago, her niece (her sister's child) came to live with Ha because her parents had an accident. She often works night shifts to take care of her parents who are over 80 years old during the day.
That same afternoon, the leader of Cau Giay District Police said Toan was being detained. The suspect had a history of mental illness and showed "abnormal mental state" at the time of the crime.
