Bangkok: Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number believed dead after a partly constructed hydropower dam in south-east Laos collapsed, sending flash floods surging through six villages, state media reported.
Communist Laos is traversed by a vast network of rivers and there are several dams being built or are planned in the impoverished and landlocked country, which exports most of its hydropower energy to neighbouring countries.
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