The People's Committee of Huong Hoa District yesterday coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Quang Tri Province and sponsors to hold a groundbreaking ceremony of building houses for 45 landslide-prone households with 171 residents in Huong Son Commune, Huong Hoa District, Quang Tri Province.

A helicopter yesterday dropped 1.5 tons of relief cargo to Huong Viet Commune, Huong Hoa District in the Central province of Quang Tri where is still isolated by floodwater, torrential downpour and landslide.

Security forces and rescue workers are going through forest to approach the landslide site in search of 22 soldiers of  Defense Economics Division 337, who have been reported trapped under debris of the massive landslide in the North Central province of Quang Tri. Of the trapped soldiers, 14 dead bodies have been found.

In these days, crowds of people have flocked to the northern central coastal province of Quang Tri to offer incense and pay floral tributes to fallen soldiers who sacrificed their lives for national independence and freedom.

US support for the war-torn central province of Quang Tri in settling the aftermath of war is substantial and the cooperation between the two is viewed by many international experts as a model for the region and the world, an insider has said.

The central province of Quang Tri held a memorial service on May 5 to receive and rebury remains of Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and specialists who died in Laos during the wartime.

Since early March, people in Cam Thanh commune, Cam Lo district, the north central province of Quang Tri have been harvesting back berry enjoying bumper crop and good price.