A guard of honor detachment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) arrived in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam on Friday, to participate in the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Vietnam's national reunification.
The PLA detachment came at the invitation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense.
After arrival, they participated in the rehearsal of the military parade of the celebration. The Chinese soldiers were hailed by people, and many stopped for group photos with them.
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of South Vietnam and national reunification will be held in Ho Chi Minh City at 06:30 on April 30, and the military parade will begin at 08:00.
PLA guard of honor arrives for celebrations of Vietnam's national reunification anniversary
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
