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The balance sheet after the collapse of a dam in southeastern Laos climbed Thursday to 27 dead, while search and rescue operations for the 131 people disappeared after thousands of homes were flooded,
Another inanimate body was discovered on Thursday morning adding to the 26 dead confirmed by Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith in a television show on Wednesday night
Intervention teams helped helicopters and aircrafts. boats, recovered the flood victims and transported them to safe areas. According to Agerpres, 688 people were rescued in the province of Champassak.
Rescuers fight the rains to reach dozens of missing people after the collapse of a dam in southern Laos https://t.co/h5kL1xHE2v pic.twitter.com/ 85LhNtJ6Bw
– AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 26, 2018
Shortly after the event, several countries offered support to Laos – 100 Rescuers arrived from China on Wednesday, Japan has sent urgent relief supplies such as tents and blankets, and Thailand has shipped strictly needed goods, such as drinking water and medicines, according to the KPL National Press Agency
potentially villages whole submerged. More than 10,000 people have been affected by a catastrophic collapse of the dam in southern Laos https://t.co/jWS0IcyVj0 pic.twitter.com/IIP7zGsLf6
– CNN (@CNN) July 25, 2018
The Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydroelectric dam, still under construction, collapsed on Monday night, an event that caused the release of about five billion cubic meters of water in the province of Attape.
Six villages of more than 1,300 households in which nearly 7,000 people lived were flooded. On aerial photos broadcast on social media, one can see large areas of water, which have reached a level close to the roofs that people have sheltered to save.
After an explosion in Laos, blurs for food, medicine and coffins https://t.co/PPCyn48LwD pic.twitter.com/mDKFjpkKyI
– Reuters Top News (@Reuters) ] July 26, 2018
The water from the hydroelectric dam reached in neighboring Cambodia, swallowing 17 villages, notes the AFP agency. "Seventeen villages have been covered with water because of the floods caused by the collapse of the Laos Dam," said Men Kong, spokesman for Stung Streng Province. "We evacuated 5,600 villagers because their houses were covered with water," he said without reporting deaths or missing persons. The Cambodian authorities, holding parliamentary elections on Sunday, are expecting an increase in water levels and new evacuations.
Hundreds of people missing after the collapse of the hydroelectric dam in Laos. The economy of Laos has been highly dependent on sales in the last few years pic.twitter.com/wKfHzSrYQ5
– ABC News (@ABC) July 24, 2018
According to the International Association of Hydropower
Laos, which intends to become the battery of Asia by 2020, has a total of 46 hydroelectric dams, of which 54 phase project and under construction, according to KPL.
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