A thick layer of dust from the construction of a huge airport in Vietnam has been blanketing nearby neighborhoods for months, staining everything from trees to homes to schoolchildren’s uniforms a sickly shade of red. | AFP
Located 40 kilometers from southern business hub Ho Chi Minh City, the four-runway Long Thanh airport — which will be the country’s largest — is forecast to transport 100 million passengers and five million tons of cargo annually once finished.But after heavy construction work began earlier this year, residents as far as 10 kilometres from the site have been living under billowing clouds of dust, prompting fears for their health and anger over the disruption caused to their lives.
This aerial photograph taken on April 5, 2023 shows dust being thrown up by trucks carrying soil at the construction site of Long Thanh airport in Dong Nai province. Red dust from the construction of a huge airport in Vietnam has rained down on thousands of people nearby for months, residents told AFP, coating trees, homes and schoolyards in a thick layer of dirt. Inside the enormous construction site, scores of trucks could be seen motoring to and fro, stirring up the red earth.
But Airports Corporation of Vietnam recently told the government the deadline would be pushed to 2026.
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