On the evening of 22/9, a two-story house with an attic in alley 175 Lac Long Quan, Tay Ho district, was engulfed in flames, suspected to be arson, injuring one person.
Luz Cuevas was told her newborn daughter Delimar Vera died in a house fire, but the truth was far more sinister: she had been abducted and raised just 15 miles away.
Cao Tran Kim Dat, 37, died after more than a week of treatment at Cho Ray Hospital, after setting fire to the room where his wife and two children were staying, leaving them critically injured.