A video screenshot shows rescue forces searching missing victims in a boat accident in northern Vietnam n Feb 22 2026.
Search teams on Sunday afternoon retrieved the bodies of all six people who had been missing following a boat crash on Thac Ba Lake in Lao Cai Province, ending nearly a day of rescue efforts.
At around 7:15 a.m., naval commandos found the first victim, an 11-year-old boy, near the front of the submerged vessel. After inspecting the boat’s cabins without locating others, rescuers widened their search to the surrounding waters.
Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers, police officers and divers continued the operation, eventually recovering the remaining five victims one by one.
By 5:20 p.m., the last body was found roughly two meters from the wreckage, formally concluding the mission.
The accident took place on Feb. 21, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Officials said a stone-carrying ferry driven by 42-year-old Nguyen Van Tham was en route to Huong Ly Port when it struck a passenger boat transporting 22 passengers and a captain.
Seventeen people survived the incident.
Thac Ba Lake, located on the Chay River between the former Yen Binh and Luc Yen districts, now part of Lao Cai Province, is one of Vietnam’s three largest artificial lakes and features more than 1,000 islands of varying sizes.
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