Viet Nam, Flooding and Landslides in Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Son La, and Quang Tri

According to reports from Lao Cai, Dien Bien, Son La and Quang Tri provinces, heavy rain, flash floods and landslides from the night of July 25 to July 27, 2025 caused the following damages:

- Regarding people: 02 dead, 04 missing (Son La); 02 injured (Dien Bien).

- Regarding housing: 22 houses collapsed (Son La); 32 houses were damaged, roofs blown off (Son La 3; Quang Tri 5; Dien Bien 22; Lao Cai 2).

- Regarding emergency evacuation: 66 households (Son La 40 households; Lao Cai 26 households). To date, 26 households in Lao Cai have returned home.

- Regarding agriculture: 180.93 hectares of rice and crops were flooded and buried (Son La 130.54 hectares; Dien Bien 4.49 hectares; Lao Cai 23.9 hectares; Quang Tri 22 hectares); 16.95 hectares of fish ponds were washed away (Dien Bien 0.25 hectares; Son La 11.2 hectares; Lao Cai 3.5 hectares; Quang Tri 1.0 hectares).

- Regarding livestock and poultry: 2,658 animals were buried and swept away (of which 98 were livestock and 2,560 were poultry in Son La).

- Regarding traffic: Regarding national highways: National Highway 4G has 06 landslide locations causing traffic congestion, expected to be temporarily opened on July 30, 2025; National Highway 12 has 02 landslide locations causing traffic congestion, expected to be temporarily opened at around 14:00 on July 28, 2025. Regarding provincial roads: Provincial Road 108 has 09 landslide locations causing traffic congestion (expected to be temporarily opened at around 10:00 on July 28, 2025); Provincial Road 113 has 03 landslide locations causing traffic congestion (expected to be temporarily opened at around 9:30 on July 28, 2025); 05 suspension bridges were swept away by floods; some inter-commune, inter-village, and intra-village roads have many landslide locations causing traffic congestion.

- Regarding electricity and communications: As of 7:00 a.m. on July 28, 2025, there were still 39 transformer stations/3,677 households without power (on July 27, the power outage for 1,885 households was fixed), in Son La; 21 stations were losing mobile signal.

Immediately after the disaster, the People's Committee of Son La province directed the communes to assign members of the Commune Command Committee to directly go to the scene of the disaster to direct the search for missing people, evacuate people, relocate and protect constructions, and arrange temporary safe accommodation for people; direct the implementation of damage recovery, focusing on visiting and implementing support policies for families with victims; repair damaged houses; handle traffic congestion at traffic points; clean up the environment; review and count the damage; stabilize people's lives and production.