{"id":25306,"date":"2026-02-23T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25306"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:02:08","slug":"six-dead-after-lake-boat-capsizes-in-northern-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=25306","title":{"rendered":"Six dead after lake boat capsizes in northern Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Six dead after lake boat capsizes in northern Vietnam<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Six people were killed after the boat they were riding in collided with another vessel and subsequently capsized in Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified passenger boat was transiting a lake when the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon (local time).<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities conducted search and rescue operations and recovered 17 survivors including the boat&#8217;s operator as well as the bodies of six deceased individuals over the next 48 hours. The deceased also included two small children.<\/p>\n<aside><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/editorial-passenger-vessel-death-toll-falls-28-per-cent-in-2025-tour-boats-become-an-increasing-problem\">EDITORIAL | Passenger vessel death toll falls 28 per cent in 2025; tour boats become an increasing problem<\/a><\/aside>\n<p>State news outlet <em>VnExpress<\/em> has reported that an investigation into the tragedy is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s capsizing is the second fatal vessel incident to occur in Vietnam in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 19, a passenger boat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/river-boat-capsizing-leaves-two-dead-in-vietnams-quang-tri-province\">capsized<\/a> in the central province of Quang Tri. The incident resulted in three deaths while the body of a fourth passenger, identified as the 14-year-old granddaughter of two of the deceased victims, has not yet been found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Gareth Havelock<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/six-dead-after-lake-boat-capsizes-in-northern-vietnam\">Go to baird maritime<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Six people were killed after the boat they were riding in collided with another vessel and subsequently capsized in Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified passenger boat was transiting a lake when the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon (local time).<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities conducted search and rescue operations and recovered 17 survivors including the boat&#8217;s operator as well as the bodies of six deceased individuals over the next 48 hours. The deceased also included two small children.<\/p>\n<aside><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/editorial-passenger-vessel-death-toll-falls-28-per-cent-in-2025-tour-boats-become-an-increasing-problem\">EDITORIAL | Passenger vessel death toll falls 28 per cent in 2025; tour boats become an increasing problem<\/a><\/aside>\n<p>State news outlet <em>VnExpress<\/em> has reported that an investigation into the tragedy is underway.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s capsizing is the second fatal vessel incident to occur in Vietnam in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 19, a passenger boat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/incidents\/accidents\/river-boat-capsizing-leaves-two-dead-in-vietnams-quang-tri-province\">capsized<\/a> in the central province of Quang Tri. The incident resulted in three deaths while the body of a fourth passenger, identified as the 14-year-old granddaughter of two of the deceased victims, has not yet been found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,22,120,4306,28],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-25306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidents","category-baird-maritime","category-ferry","category-inland-cruise-ferry","category-search-and-rescue","tag-baird-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}