Emergency aid to storm Nari victims
The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) on October 16 decided to give emergency aid worth VND2 billion in cash and kinds to three central provinces and cities hardest hit by cyclonic storm Nari, the 11th to strike Vietnam this year.
Accordingly, Quang Nam province will receive VND600 million, 400 relief goods packages and 400 sets of house fixing tools, Danang city, VND400 million, 200 relief goods packages and 130 sets of house fixing tools and Quang Ngai province, 200 relief goods packages.
The VRC has asked its chapters in the typhoon-hit localities to evaluate the consequences and timely support the victims in resuming their production and repairing their houses.
A delegation of voluntary doctors went to the localities to provide the locals with free medical check-ups.
According to the National Committee for Search and Rescue, storm Nari killed at least four people and left five others missing in the central region.
The storm, which hit land on October 15, also injured 69 people in Quang Nam, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Ngai, Quang Tri and Nghe An provinces and Danang city.
It also sunk and destroyed many ships and houses.
Water levels in the rivers from Nghe An to Quang Binh provinces rose above the second-warning level in the afternoon of October 16.
The National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control and the Committee for Search and Rescue asked these provinces to evacuate people to higher places.