The collapse occurred yesterday afternoon in Trung Hung commune, Co Do district, and continued until noon today. The warehouse is quite solid (built with walls and roofed with corrugated iron), located near Thot Not canal, with a conveyor belt transporting rice for the enterprise, cracked, collapsed in large pieces, and sunk 0.3-1 m below the road surface.

Provincial Road 921 in this area (connecting Co Do district with Thot Not district) continues to show long cracks and widen.

Mr. Le Chi Phuong, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Co Do district, said that the collapsed warehouse area is more than 135 m long, more than 11 m wide, with a total area of ​​more than 1,500 m2, with an estimated total damage of about 10 billion VND. The subsidence also caused cracks on the road surface with a length of 48 m, 3.5 m wide, equivalent to 168 m2.

"Local authorities are mobilizing forces to support the dismantling of warehouses, moving goods and assets out, and installing warning signs in dangerous areas, dividing and regulating traffic," said Mr. Phuong.

Initially, local authorities determined that the collapse was most likely due to prolonged drought, the Thot Not canal running dry, and many barges carrying supplies and rice passing by. At the time of the incident, there were many goods in the warehouse, creating a large gravity on the floor.

Rice warehouse collapsed, causing damage of 10 billion VND

The prolonged drought over the past months has caused a series of landslides in the West. The most serious is Tran Van Thoi district, Ca Mau, with more than 600 landslides on 132 canals, with a total length of nearly 19 km, causing damage of about 20 billion VND. In U Minh Thuong district, Kien Giang, more than 300 landslides were recorded on many roads with a total length of nearly 8.2 km; many houses of the people were damaged; total damage was more than 90 billion VND...

According to some experts, the hot weather has caused the canals to dry up, causing a large difference in height between the road surface and the water level below the canal, leading to subsidence. Dredging has deepened the canal bottom, and the weak ground in the area is also the cause of the incident.

An Binh