CHAMPASAK (LAOS): The our bodies of 17 other people have been recovered after flash floods led to by way of a dam breach in southern Laos, a Thai consular reliable at the scene told AFP Wednesday.
A wall of water was unleashed Monday after portions of the dam had been washed away, sending floods surging downstream, sweeping away properties and leaving an unknown choice of other people missing.
"There are 17 bodies recovered so far, but we can not estimate the number of missing yet," Chana Miencharoen, mentioned, adding roof-level flood waters have submerged a number of villages close to the Xe-Namnoy dam.
"All the dead are Laotian ... more than 6,000 are affected from eight villages near the dam," he mentioned, from the comfort centre in Attepeu province, the place the disaster befell on Monday.
The remote house is most effective accessible by way of helicopter and flat-bottomed boats, with roads badly broken by way of the flash flooding or totally washed away.
Communist Laos is criss-crossed by way of a limiteless community of rivers and ratings of dams are being built or deliberate within the impoverished and landlocked country, which exports most of its hydropower energy to neighbouring countries like Thailand.
The South Korean partner within the hydropower venture mentioned on Wednesday it came upon the upper a part of the structure had washed away 24 hours prior to it collapsed.
SK Engineering & Construction mentioned it came upon the wear to an auxiliary dam at round 9pm on Sunday local time.
"We immediately alerted the authorities and began evacuating (nearby) villagers downstream," it mentioned in a commentary.
A wall of water was unleashed Monday after portions of the dam had been washed away, sending floods surging downstream, sweeping away properties and leaving an unknown choice of other people missing.
"There are 17 bodies recovered so far, but we can not estimate the number of missing yet," Chana Miencharoen, mentioned, adding roof-level flood waters have submerged a number of villages close to the Xe-Namnoy dam.
"All the dead are Laotian ... more than 6,000 are affected from eight villages near the dam," he mentioned, from the comfort centre in Attepeu province, the place the disaster befell on Monday.
The remote house is most effective accessible by way of helicopter and flat-bottomed boats, with roads badly broken by way of the flash flooding or totally washed away.
Communist Laos is criss-crossed by way of a limiteless community of rivers and ratings of dams are being built or deliberate within the impoverished and landlocked country, which exports most of its hydropower energy to neighbouring countries like Thailand.
The South Korean partner within the hydropower venture mentioned on Wednesday it came upon the upper a part of the structure had washed away 24 hours prior to it collapsed.
SK Engineering & Construction mentioned it came upon the wear to an auxiliary dam at round 9pm on Sunday local time.
"We immediately alerted the authorities and began evacuating (nearby) villagers downstream," it mentioned in a commentary.
Bodies of 17 recovered after Laos dam disaster: Thai consul official
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