Swept-away bus recovered, 14 bodies found

Rescue forces on Thursday recovered a bus that was swept away by floods on Monday with 19 missing passengers from the Lam River in the central province of Ha Tinh. They found 14 bodies by Thursday.

Rescue forces on Thursday recovered a bus that was swept away by floods on Monday with 19 missing passengers from the Lam River in the central province of Ha Tinh. They found 14 bodies by Thursday.

Ten bodies were taken out of the bus on Thursday. Four other bodies had been earlier found from the river.

Thousands of people watch the bus being pulled up from the Lam River on October 21, 2010. AFP
Thousands of people watch the bus being pulled up from the Lam River on October 21, 2010. AFP

The rescue forces found the bus around 1 kilometer downstream from the accident site and 150 meters from the bank in the evening of October 20.

Driver Dinh Van Luong and his assistant Dinh Xuan Truong were among ten of the dead bodies found Thursday.

Divers said that they saw many bodies of the victims in the bus.

On Monday, the bus carrying about 40 passengers was traveling from the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong to the northern Nam Dinh province.

The strong water current made the bus deviated from the road towards the direction of the Lam River, and the bus submerged in flood waters under the Rong Bridge in Nghi Xuan District.

Seventeen passengers were rescued at that time. They broke the windows to get out of the bus and swam ashore. Other passengers were stuck in the bus and swept into the Lam River. Some were found as survivors later.

Hundreds of soldiers and rescue team used boats, barges, helicopters and metal detectors to look for missing passengers.

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