VietNamNet Bridge – This morning a tornado suddenly appeared in a little rain in the town of Co Do in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho, damaging over 100 houses and injuring 5 people.
Mr. Tran Van Tranh, the town’s chair, said the at least 56 houses collapsed, 91 houses were damaged and 40 electric poles were knocked down in the tornado.
Local residents said the tornado appeared in small rain at 7.10am. When many people were about to live home for work, they heard the wind howling from afar, then swept away the roofs.
“My wife, I and our two children had just run to the street only several seconds before the house fell down,” said Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son, a resident in Thoi Thuan hamlet.
After the disaster, more than 100 officers and soldiers of the Military Region 9 and the local authorities helped people clean up the scene and rebuild damaged houses.
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