Eleven people were confirmed dead while 120 remained missing after a dam collapsed which trigged flash flood in southern Laos last Monday, a officer from the Lao People’s Army said on Monday.
Two bodies were found Monday, one in a village in the disaster-hit area and one in Kratie province in northeastern Cambodia, said Khamlieng Outhakaisone, deputy director general of the General Staff Department (GSD) of the Lao People’s Army, who is also the commander of the rescue operation.
The collapse of a under-construction saddle dam of the Xe Pian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower project, invested by South Korean, Thai and Lao companies, last Monday unleashed some 5 billion cubic meters of water to hit some 13 villages of Sanamxay district in southern Lao’s Attapeu Province.
Khamlieng said that the Lao authorities are still making efforts to search for those missing people day and night and they will try to bring in equipment and machines to speed up the work.
He also thanked…
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