Police retrieve 200kg goods looted from burned truck in central Vietnam
More than 200kg worth of products looted by local mobs shortly after spilling out from a burning truck in south-central Vietnam earlier this week have been retrieved.
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The truck was transporting household goods on November 1 from Ho Chi Minh City to a supermarket in Quy Nhon City, the capital of Binh Dinh Province, when it suddenly caught fire.
As its merchandise poured from the burning trailer, a mob of local residents rushed to loot the goods, despite desperate cries from the poor driver.
A passer-by filmed the entire looting scene and posted three different videos to her Facebook, helping police identify the looters, most of whom are residents of the city’s Ghenh Rang Ward and nearby Xuan Hai Commune in the neighboring province of Phu Yen.
Police have summoned the identified looters and asked them to return the goods. As of November 3 afternoon, some 200kg of looted items, including cooking pots, infrared cookers, fish sauce, and detergent, have been returned to Ghenh Rang police.
“Most of the returned products were burned in the fire and are now unusable,” Huynh Du Phi Long, deputy head of the Quy Nhon police department, admitted to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
