1,500 m2 rice warehouse cracked open

Can Tho Rice warehouse along Provincial Road 921 collapsed seriously, causing damage of 10 billion VND, traffic through the area was congested.

The collapse happened 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 open, 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 have long cracks that are widening.

Current state of the collapsed rice warehouse, noon April 19. Photo: An Binh

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 meters long, more than 11 meters wide, with a total area of ​​more than 1,500 square meters, with an estimated total damage of about 10 billion VND. The subsidence also caused cracks on the road surface with a length of 48 meters, 3.5 meters wide, equivalent to 168 square meters.

"Local authorities are mobilizing forces to support dismantling the warehouse, 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 was dry, and many barges carrying supplies and rice were passing by. At the time of the incident, there were many goods in the warehouse, creating a great gravity on the floor.

Rice warehouse collapsed, causing damage of 10 billion VND

Scene of warehouse collapse. Video : An Binh

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 people were damaged; total damage was more than 90 billion VND...

According to some experts, the heat 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 caused the canal bottom to become deeper, and the weak ground in the area is also the cause of the incident.

An Binh

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