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A group of Thai volunteers rescuing a baby trapped in a remote village (AFP)
The rescue of a small boy, terrified and starving after days without food, was captured in a viral video showing the surviving child of a dam collapse in southern Laos is carefully transported through swirling waters and mud.
Thai volunteers rescuing 14 people, including the baby, became viral when he was released on Friday. The survivors were trapped by floodwaters after fleeing a hill on Monday as the Xe-Namnoy Dam broke under heavy rain, leaving several villages devastated by sudden floods.
The Thai team, which has traveled several kilometers through the tumultuous waters carrying uprooted trees and debris to save the group, has just redoubled its efforts to help release a youth football team trapped in a cave in the north of their country
They have now come to help neighboring Laos, which is poorly equipped to deal with natural disasters of this magnitude.
"The boy is four months old, he has not had a fever but he was crying, maybe because of the cold weather," Kengkard Bongkawong, one of the north-based rescuers, told AFP. -est from Thailand
"The baby was crying and looking terrified.In fact, they were (still) terrified by the rushing waters."
The video had been watched nearly half a million times after its online publication Friday.
Earlier this week, authorities said 27 bodies were recovered The governor of Attapeu province, Leth Xiayaphone, revised down the death toll to five, declaring Friday that the largest previously given number was "unconfirmed information"
. Laos is not used to international scrutiny and has blocked access to foreign media, complicating efforts to establish the exact number of casualties.
The dam disaster also raised serious questions about Laos' big gamble on hydropower. 19659003] (This story was not edited by NDTV staff and is generated automatically from a syndicated feed.)
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