Two people died and four others were injured when a floating restaurant sank in Vinh Hy Bay in central Vietnam this morning. The police said they are investigating what cause the floating restaurant to sink. The Vinh Tien restaurant, constructed on a 200-square-meter platform on top of floating oil drums, started to sink to one side at around 10 a.m., witnesses said. It also quoted Nguyen Van My, director of a Ho Chi Minh City-based travel agency, as saying that the sinking should set alarm bells ringing about safety standards of such floating restaurants in Vietnam. A report on Zing news website quoted a local official, Tran Van Nam as saying that the sea where the restaurant anchored is about 2.5 meters deep.

Source: Thanhnien News July 23, 2016 09:45 UTC