Heartbreaking story of a man who died in a well collapse
(Baonghean.vn) - Mr. Phan Van Duong was buried and died at the bottom of a well, leaving behind his sick wife and two young children, causing great grief to many people.
Present at the victim’s house in Minh Duong hamlet, while family, brothers, neighbors were preparing to hold a ceremony to send the unfortunate man to his final resting place. An atmosphere of sadness and grief was clearly visible on each face of relatives.
Well collapse in Nghe An, 2 people buried
(Baonghean.vn) - While digging an old well for a local household, two men in a hired well digging team suddenly collapsed and were buried under rocks and soil. Locals were only able to rescue one person, the other died.
Next to the coffin filled with incense smoke, the young wife cried silently. Visitors, seeing the two young children wrapped in white mourning bands on their heads with bewildered eyes, could not hold back their tears.
Mr. Phan Van Tung (38 years old), Mr. Duong's younger brother, who lives in Quang Ngai, heard that his brother died in a collapsed well and immediately took a bus for the whole family to return home that night. Mr. Tung shared: "Yesterday afternoon, when I heard the phone call, I couldn't believe it was true, who would have thought that disaster would befall my family."
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| Rescue scene of the well collapse accident in Thanh Ha - Thanh Chuong. |
Ms. Phan Thi Dong (35 years old) - Mr. Duong's wife said in tears: "Yesterday, because he worked near home, Mr. Duong came home for lunch, ate for a while and then left without saying anything to his wife and children. Around 3 pm, while he was working at home, he heard the news of the well collapsing, and the world seemed to spin."
It is known that Mr. Duong is the main laborer in the family. Due to difficult family circumstances, for decades, he has had to work many jobs to make a living, from construction worker, digging, dredging wells, chopping wood, digging graves for hire... The family has 4 sao of rice fields, after the harvest season, he does whatever he is hired to do.
He has been digging wells for more than 7 years now. Many times, seeing her husband's work being hard and dangerous, his wife tried to stop him, but he still tried to work hard to earn money to raise their children.
According to relatives, recently, Mr. Duong was planning, after this working trip, to save up to build a bathroom and level the front garden. However, yesterday's fateful afternoon ended his plans. |
| The atmosphere of mourning at the victim's family in Minh Duong hamlet |
As reported, on the morning of May 24, according to plan, Mr. Duong and 2 friends in the commune were hired to dredge an old well for an electronics repairman in hamlet 1, Thanh Ha commune. In the morning, work was normal, but at 3:00 p.m., an incident occurred. The ground around the well collapsed, sweeping the brick sewer down into the well, burying Mr. Duong and Mr. Phan Van Su.
Immediately after that, Mr. Su was given emergency aid, but Mr. Duong's body was not brought to the surface until 10 p.m. the same day. At that time, he was dead, still wearing the plastic helmet on his head. At 11 p.m., his relatives were able to bring his body home.
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| Dong and her three children in the pain of losing her husband and father. |
Mr. Duong passed away, leaving behind his sick wife (Ms. Dong had just had surgery for a tumor earlier this year) and two young children. Phan Thanh Phuong (7 years old) is in first grade, and Phan Thanh Dat (5 years old) is in kindergarten.
At Mr. Duong's funeral, everyone was silent in grief, but his children were still innocent, not yet feeling the pain of losing their father.
The hearse rolled in the late afternoon, sending the unfortunate man to his final resting place, forever ending a life of hardship, difficulty, but full of worries and anxieties...
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| Mr. Phan Van Dung - Vice Chairman of Thanh Tung Commune (middle) visited and presented support from fellow countrymen to the victim's family. |
Following the well collapse in Thanh Ha, besides the pain of the victims' relatives, there was a gesture that warmed the hearts of the people in the poor neighborhood: the locals organized a donation right at the scene to share with the victim's family.
Mr. Phan Van Dung - Vice Chairman of Thanh Tung Commune People's Committee said: Mr. Duong is a poor household, his family's conditions are difficult. When hearing the news of Mr. Duong's accident, the local government sent officials to visit and offer condolences to his family. The district Red Cross also visited. On the night of May 24, the people here donated more than 14 million VND to help Mr. Duong's family. The campaign to support Mr. Duong's family is still continuing.