Young and old in Bac Ninh volunteered with soldiers and police to build a dike to prevent floodwaters on the Cau River.

Thousands of people and military, police and security forces stayed up all night to reinforce the dike as the floodwaters of the Cau River rose high in the Dau Han dike area, Kinh Bac ward, Bac Ninh.

Military forces deployed along the Dau Han dike ( Bac Ninh ) to reinforce the dike when the Cau River water level rose on the evening of October 8 - Photo: HA QUAN

Late on the evening of October 8, military forces, police, security guards and thousands of people, including the elderly and young people, volunteered to reinforce the dike when the Cau River water level rose at Dau Han dike area, Kinh Bac ward, Bac Ninh.

The area inside Dau Han dike is home to about 2,000 people. If the dike overflows, people's lives and property will be affected, and at the same time threaten the entire main dike system of Kinh Bac ward.

According to the People's Committee of Kinh Bac Ward (Bac Ninh), from 7:00 a.m. on October 7, about 600 people and police, military , and security forces on site built a 600m dike with sandbags and tarpaulin to block the water.

At 8:00 a.m. on October 8, people in Dau Han area continued to build a dike to prevent water, with an additional 2,500 sacks and 600 meters of wave-blocking tarpaulin.

On October 8, troops from the 673rd Air Defense Brigade of the 12th Corps stationed in Lang Giang, Bac Ninh were reinforced to support the work of building sandbags to prevent the Dau Han dike from overflowing.

Dau Han Dike was basically stabilized on the night of October 8 - Photo: HA QUAN

Bac Ninh residents join hands with functional forces to reinforce Dau Han dike, no one complains of fatigue, only returning home when the work is finished - Photo: HA QUAN

Ms. Nguyen Thi Tra, a teacher at Hoa Long Kindergarten, residing in Viem Xa village, near Dau Han dike (Kinh Bac ward, Bac Ninh), said that because students are off school, she and eight other teachers have been strengthening the dike protection, shoveling sand, and building embankments to prevent overflow for the past two days.

This afternoon (October 8), about 40 more teachers joined the people, soldiers, and police to reinforce the bank. According to her, last year after Typhoon Yagi , the Cau River also rose high, people and authorities were present to reinforce the dike, everyone volunteered, not hesitating for everyone's safety.

Police forces increased support for other functional forces and people to reinforce Dau Han dike - Photo: HA QUAN

Many officers and soldiers of the armed forces worked late into the night to ensure the reinforcement of the weak sections on the Dau Han dike bordering the Cau River - Photo: HA QUAN

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting at 9:00 p.m. on October 8, it is forecasted that in the next 12 hours, the flood on the Thuong River at Cau Son is likely to peak and be about 2.45m above alert level 3 - Photo: THANH CONG

Forecast at Phu Lang Thuong station, the flood may peak and be about 0.23m above the historical flood level of 1986. The flood on Cau River at Dap Cau may peak and be 1.1m above the alarm level 3 - Photo: HA QUAN

Warning from now until October 9, flood on Luc Nam River (Bac Ninh) at Luc Nam station, flood on Thai Binh River (Hai Phong) at Pha Lai station fluctuates at alert level 1 to alert level 2 - Photo: HA QUAN

Young union members are determined to complete the task of filling sand to prevent the dike from overflowing at Dau Han dike, Kinh Bac ward, Bac Ninh province - Photo: HA QUAN

People give drinking water to the task force at Dau Han dike area, bordering Cau River - Photo: HA QUAN

HA QUAN

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/gia-tre-gai-trai-o-bac-ninh-tinh-nguyen-cung-bo-doi-cong-an-dap-de-ngan-nuoc-lu-song-cau-20251008235714582.htm