Parents Put Kids In Plastic Bags, Float Them Across Flood Zones To Get To School

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Parents in a flood-hit Vietnamese village are getting creative.

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In order to get their kids to school, they're carrying them across flooded areas in giant plastic bags. This footage, shot by a school teacher in 2013, has just emerged today, reports The Telegraph.

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This was the only way across the river in the small Sam Lang village. The nearby suspension bridge was down because of the flood.

In this incredible clip, a man can be seen carefully wrapping up each child in a plastic bag before submerging himself neck deep to get the kids across the waters.

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Then he comes back to get more kids.

Apparently, this is how it goes in Sam Lang village. The woman who shot the footage, school teacher Tong Thi Minh told a Vietnamese publication (as per The Telegraph), "It's normal. No suspension bridge can stand the flood waters."

You can watch the full clip here:

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