Hundreds of people are missing and several believed dead after the collapse of a hydropower dam under construction in southeast Laos, according to state media.
The accident happened at a dam in Sanamxay district of southeastern Attapeu province late on Monday, releasing five billion cubic metres of water, Laos News Agency said on Tuesday.
“Several human lives claimed, and several hundreds of people missing,” the report said.
Several houses in the southern part of the district were also swept away, the report said, and officials in the province put out a call for relief aid for flood victims.
Al Jazeera’s Wayne Hay reports from Bangkok in neighbouring Thailand.
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