Xinhua, Vientiane
Lao military personnel and a rescue team from Singapore are continuing the search for the 98 people still missing in the wake of the dam burst, with the number of dead confirmed at 36, local daily Vientiane Times reported Monday.
The search for those still missing after the district was inundated following the collapse of a dam wall involves teams from the Lao army and a rescue team from Singapore, who are scouring the area in hopes of finding other victims.
Flood in Mongolia claims 65 lives
Xinhua, Ulan Bator
The death toll from floods in Mongolia has risen to 65 after the National Emergency Management Agency (NEM) registered two deaths on Sunday.
“Two deaths were reported near Airag soum (soum is an administrative subdivision) in eastern Dornogovi province on Sunday,” raising the death toll through the year caused by the flood to 65, NEMA said Monday in a statement, urging residents to take precautions against the flood.
16 feared dead in copter ‘hard landing’ in Tajikistan
AFP, Dushanbe
Up to 16 people, including 13 climbers and 3 helicopter crew, are unaccounted for after a “hard landing” in the mountains of Tajikistan, the Central Asian country’s emergency committee said Monday. The accident took place on Sunday at 1130 GMT, the committee said, and two helicopters have been sent on a rescue and recovery mission to the crash site.
8 killed in Pakistan mine blast
AFP, Quetta
A blast at a coal mine has killed at least eight workers on the outskirts of Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, officials said on Monday, with five more feared dead.
The mine caved in after the miners used dynamite during an excavation in Sinjidi, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province. “There were up to 22 workers present in different tunnels in the mine, some who were as deep as 4,000 feet (1,219 metres) when the blast occurred,” provincial chief mines inspector Muhammad Iftikhar told AFP.
