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Hanoi life on the tracks
  • By Huu Nghi | dtinews.vn | April 18, 2012 02:56 PM

Many less fortunate residents in Hanoi are living and making their livings dangerously close to railways.

Most of them are unskilled labourers or unregistered immigrants.

DTiNews bring readers to photos of their dangerous lives:



Vendor sitting near the rail line on Phung Hung Street


Front door just opposite the railway


Daily along the tracks


Children’s ‘playground’




Most residents here are unregistered immigrants


Making wreaths on railways


Daily life goes on


Drying hair


Dangerous ‘playground’


Home-made crossing


Lack of worry


Path for motorbikes near the railway along Phung Hung Street


Conscious of dangers?


Unsafe crossing

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