A: 24.07.2018 12:00

In Laos, the mbades of water have a mbad of water collapsed dam washed away thousands of houses. Hundreds of people are missing, there are several dead.

Hundreds of people disappeared after the collapse of a dam in Laos, Southeast Asia. The dam of a hydroelectric plant under construction in Attapeu province, in the south-east of the country, was broken Monday night (local time) and flooded the region with five billion cubic meters of water. water, reported the Laos news agency

. The boats to evacuate people reported ABC Laos. On his Facebook page, the broadcaster has released a video on which people on rooftops and trees are waiting for help. More than 6,600 people lost their homes.

The dam was built by a joint venture led by South Korean companies with Thai and Laotian partners. It should be used to produce electricity and start operating this year. That this has happened already is not clear. Communist Laos has about seven million inhabitants

.