Another Truong Sa soldier from Nghe An fell at sea
It is not only during war when bombs and bullets explode that there are losses and sacrifices. Even in peacetime on the front lines of the motherland, there are still soldiers who heroically fall into the mother sea while on patrol duty to protect the island.
Lieutenant Phan Van Hanh's sacrifice at Toc Tan C Island, Truong Sa archipelago on the eve of the Lunar New Year was a great loss to his family and comrades. His name is engraved in the history of Naval Region 4.
At 8:00 a.m. on January 18, Lieutenant Phan Van Hanh and his teammates were assigned to patrol and protect Toc Tan C Island on a motorboat. When leaving the coral reef, his boat was circling the island to check the border, when it suddenly encountered a huge wave rolling in from the ocean. Although he tried to control the boat, the wind was too strong, the strong vortex caused the boat to capsize.
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| Lieutenant Phan Van Hanh on guard duty at Toc Tan C island. |
Immediately after Lieutenant Hanh died, his comrades brought his body to Toc Tan C Island and then transferred it by naval ship to Nhon Trach Port, Dong Nai. The leaders of Region 4 and his comrades welcomed him to the 175 Hospital of the Ministry of National Defense and held a memorial service there. According to the family's wishes, Lieutenant Hanh's body was transferred by a special refrigerated truck and buried in his hometown in Nghe An on January 22.
Lieutenant Phan Van Hanh was born in 1981, from Nghe An, belonging to Brigade 146, Naval Region 4 Command. Lieutenant Hanh enlisted in 2002 and worked on the island for more than 5 months. He died at the age of 33. Currently, the Navy Policy Department is completing the dossier to request the Ministry of National Defense to recognize Lieutenant Phan Van Hanh as a martyr.
Toc Tan is one of the submerged islands in the Truong Sa archipelago, about 20km long, about 7km wide, with an average area of 75km2.2The Vietnamese Navy has built three permanent houses on the coral reef of the western reef cluster: one on the northwest coral reef (house B); one on the northern coral reef (house C) and one on the southeast coral reef (house A).
According to dantri.com
