Ho Chi Minh City boy dies after falling into sewer

TUOITRE

An eight-year-old boy died in Ho Chi Minh City Friday after falling into a sewer in Binh Chanh District.
Tran Dinh, a second-grade student at the Vo Van Tan primary school, was returning home from school when he fell into a deep pit in front of his school.

He got stuck in a sewer inside and died of asphyxiation.

The pit has no fence around it and is surrounded by wet, slippery grass.

Truong Thi Kim Cuong, the victim’s mother, lamented: “Students’ parents have asked for a fence to be built around the dangerous pit but no one has done it so far.”
 
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Candidate for HCMC Council election suddenly dies

Nguyen Tien Dung

Photo: HCMC Department of Internal Affairs

TUOI TRE 

Nguyen Tien Dung, member of the city Communist Party Committee and newly-appointed deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport who was shortlisted to run for the upcoming city’s People’s Council election, suddenly died at 9:30 am at Cho Ray Hospital today (May 3). 

The news was announced by the transport department. 

According to preliminary information, Dung went up to the rooftop of his three-story house in District 10 to watch the plumbers fix the water system but due to dizziness, he fell down to the ground.

He was rushed to hospital for emergency care. But it was too late.

His body has been taken home for burial.

Dung was born in 1961 in An Giang southern province. He was appointed as deputy director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport just last month.

Dung also was chairman of Saigon Transportation Mechanical Corporation’s (Samco) management board and its Party committee secretary.

Dung is one of 161 nominees shortlisted to run for the city’s 8^th People’s Council for the 2011 – 2016 term. The list is now therefore reduced to 160.

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