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Experts in the field have warned about the additional grave danger of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district in the wake of last week’s fatal flooding. The experts fear that bombs buried in soil or mud could have been disturbed by the flood, ...

Temporary housing will be built, with completion slated within two months, to accommodate people left homeless after widespread flooding in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, authorities in charge have said.More ...

People affected by widespread flooding in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province, look set to receive full compensation as the government has determined that the flood was not a natural disaster.More ...

Health authorities have begun to provide vaccines against typhoid, cholera, tetanus and more to flood victims to prevent against the possible communicable disease outbreaks in flood-affected areas in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province. Some 2,979 cases of illness from dysentery, pneumonia, athlete’s foot and respiratory problems have ...

Authorities in charge have accepted Singapore’s proposal to send a rescue team with heat-detecting drone technology in an attempt to locate alive any of the 120 people still missing after the July 23 flooding in Attapeu province’s Sanamxay district resulting from a dam collapse.More ...

Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: The number of confirmed fatalities remained at 11 as of yesterday’s conclusion of the ground search and rescue mission on day eight following the devastation caused by floodwaters from the failure of the saddle dam D at the provinces under-construction Xepian-Xenamnoy hydropower ...

Vientiane Times reporter Mr BounfaengPhaymanivong said this morning that rescuers had found another body on Cambodian soil though it was yet to be confirmed whether it was a flood victim.More ...

Flood victims in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province are still in need of essential items especially food, rice, drinking water, clothing, blankets, medicines and other daily necessities. More than 10,000 people have been relocated to temporary shelter centres in Attapeu and Champassak provinces after the flood ...

Rescue teams from foreign countries have been offered priority access to enter the country via immigration checkpoints so that they can join rescue operations in Attapeu province. More ...

Attapeu : Search and rescue operations have spanned just 30 percent of the total area of 13 flood-affected villages in Attapeu province as of yesterday afternoon as the complexities of the terrain and prevailing conditions continue to hamper progress according to a senior official.More ...