Sand flood buries cars, houses in Vietnam tourism site

A 16-seat car sees mud and sand going up to half the vehicle, the driver having escaped. Authorities are deploying excavators to remove the vehicle.

Motorbikes parked on the streets are also buried in the sand. Authorities said there are around a dozen motorbikes in the area buried by the sand. Two trucks in the area also could not move due to the sand.

A house on the side of the street is invaded by sand, resulting in 10 motorbikes being buried.

Diep Thanh Hung (pictured) said around more than 10 people used to stay in the house but they just moved. "If they had been inside, they would have died. There's no way for them to escape."

A couch is swept away by the sand in the middle of the road.

Diep Hanh, a local resident, said the sand flood rose as high as an adult's neck, and she could only held her door tight so the flood could not enter her house.

"I've live here for more than 50 years and have never seen such a flood like this one."

A restaurant employee cleans up the aftermath of the sand flood.

At the front of the Vietnam Home restaurant on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, the sand barreled down a 300-meter section of the street. It built up as high as half a meter, impeding traffic in the area.

Restaurant employees remove the sand from the establishment.

Phan Thiet People's Committee and the Department of Transport have deployed vehicles to the scene for clean up. The exact amount of damage has not been confirmed.

A section of coastal road 706 is full of mud. Vehicles could not traverse the area and had to take alternative routes.

Sand floods often take place in the Mui Ne beach and Phan Thiet City areas whenever it rains heavily. The previous occasion happened in October 2023, when a sand flood invaded the neighborhood and the coastal road of Tien Thanh Commune in Phan Thiet City, impeding traffic.