'Most of us are worse off' — Radio Free Asia
Survivors of Laos dam break 4 years ago say the government still hasn’t cleared their farmland of debris.
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Lao Flood Survivors Still Struggle, With Cash and Rice Support Now Cut Off or Reduced
Citizen Journalist Almost three years after a dam collapse that caused Laos’ worst flooding in decades, most of the 3,600 survivors of the collapse are still living in shelters, with their cash and food allowances cut off or reduced since January, Lao sources say. On July 23, 2018, water surged over a saddle dam in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district at the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy (PNPC) hydropower project following heavy rains, inundating 12 villages and killing at least 40 people in Attapeu and neighboring Champassak province. Only around 111 families of survivors have now been...
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