A Mong couple working in Hai Duong had 5 relatives die in a landslide.

Traveling all day and night from A Lu commune, at dawn on October 10, the Mong couple Sung A Giang and Sung Thi Chao finally returned to their rented room in Bai Duong village, Luong Dien commune, Cam Giang district (Hai Duong). The tiring journey combined with the great pain made the couple lie flat in the room.

Sung A Giang was born in 2002, one year older than his wife. Before moving to Hai Duong to work at BP Company in Luong Dien Commune 3 months ago, the Mong couple had worked for an electronics company in Bac Giang. In their new working environment, each month Giang and his wife saved about 10 million VND - a huge amount of money for them - to send home to their parents to raise their children. But after only 3 months, they lost everything.

On August 20, Sung A Giang took a leave to return to his hometown. That was also the last time Giang saw his father, mother, younger sister Sung Thi L. who was in 9th grade, and his son Sung AT (5 years old), and daughter Sung Thi Linh Ph. (3 years old), because just over half a month later, all of them had died after the most terrifying flash flood in Phin Chai 2 ever.

That day when they returned to their hometown, Sung A T. and his daughter Sung Thi Linh Ph. were bought candy by their father and ate it deliciously - this is also the last photo of the two children that Giang took with his phone.

As for Sung Thi Chao - the mother of two children, since moving from Bac Giang to Hai Duong to work, she has not been able to return to her hometown so she has not had the chance to see her children for the last time.

Sung A Giang is the oldest brother and has two younger sisters. The youngest sister, Sung Thi L., is in 9th grade near home so she was present with her family on the day of the flash flood. The second sister, Sung Thi G., is in 10th grade nearly 70 km from home and is a boarding student so she escaped the disaster.

Over the phone, Giang's remaining younger sister, Sung Thi G., who studies at the Bat Xat District Continuing Education Center, said that on the day the family had an accident, she wanted to return home immediately but the teachers stopped her because all the roads were dangerously eroded. Two days later, Giang came from Hai Duong to pick her up to find a way back to Phin Chai. But after not being there for long, the two siblings had to leave their car behind and walk about 40 km home.

Tho A Cu, the head of Phin Chai 2 village, said that on the night of September 9, the flash flood killed 7 people in the village, including 5 of Giang's relatives. Many Mong people go downstream to earn money to send money back to support their families, but Sung A Giang's case is the most heartbreaking. Giang's family's old house is now just a pile of rubble, unable to rebuild.

According to Sung A Giang, when he arrived in Hai Duong in the early morning of October 10, he received a phone call from someone at BP Company that Giang and Chao's resignation letter had been written by someone else. Not returning to work at the old company, plus the fact that someone from the village called to prepare to build a new house, Giang and Chao packed up all their belongings in their rented room and returned to Phin Chai.

According to Sung A Giang, after the incident, he received timely support from the company and colleagues, both materially and spiritually. However, he and his wife had to return to their hometown immediately to arrange a new place to live until things stabilized and they would return to work at the company.

After hearing Sung A Giang's story, Mr. Hoang Ba Thieu, the landlord, said that if Giang and his wife return in the future, he will support the room fee to share their difficulties and losses.