Parents in Nghe An risk their lives to take their children to school in raging floodwaters.
(Baonghean.vn) - Floodwaters were flowing rapidly across the road, but people in Dong Van commune, Tan Ky district still risked their lives wading through the water to take their children to school.
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| Roads are flooded, people still take their children to school. Photo: Huy Thu |
On the night of September 19 and early morning of September 20, there was heavy rain in Tan Ky district. The water of Xa dam in Nha Tra village rose and overflowed the dam, causing a stretch of inter-hamlet road tens of meters long to be flooded. Above the road, the water rose high and flowed rapidly, below the road the water was deep and quite dangerous.
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| Many people carry their children across flooded roads. Photo: Huy Thu |
Not wanting their children to miss school, the people of Nha Tra village still risked their lives to carry and lead their children across the floodwaters to get to school. They left their motorbikes on one side of the road and carried their children across to the other side, many even carried their bicycles along.
It is known that this is the main road for 120 households in Nha Tra village to travel and transport agricultural products such as sugarcane, cassava, acacia, wood, etc. Every day, dozens of students in the village have to go through this road to go to school.
During the rainy season, the roads are often deeply flooded, Nha Tra village is also isolated many times a year, sometimes it takes 4-5 days for the flood water to recede, causing difficulties for people in their daily lives.
