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Floods from Laos dam collapse reach Cambodia (Xe-Namnoy dam (Cambodia (Men…
Floods from Laos dam collapse reach Cambodia
Xe-Namnoy dam
search and rescue
effort entered a third day Thursday
with
Vietnam sending in specialists
Thailand sending in specialists
China sending in specialists
Carcasses of livestock floated in the knee-deep waters in a devastated village
as heavy rain pounded the area
visited by AFP
Cambodia
Thousands of villagers downstream
have also been forced to flee
as the water once held back
by the dam flowed south
Men Kong
a government spokesman
in Cambodia's Stung Streng province,
He told AFP
Water is still rising, so more people will be evacuated
while supplies were handed out to some who found refuge on dry land.
by
Cambodian soldiers ferried villagers
motorbikes from flooded zones on wooden boats
Tran Van Bien
47 years old
from Ban Mai village
close to the ruined dam
said
he was told to evacuate just two hours before the dam burst
on Monday evening
running to a neighbour's house with his family
as his home quickly filled with water.
told AFP
"We were on the roof of that house the whole night, cold and scared. At 4:00 am a wooden boat passed and we decided to send my wife and my kid out,”
My wife tied our child to her body, saying if they died, they would die together rather than being alone
from a nearby town where he eventually found dry land.
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