https://www.scmp.com/rss/328250/feed David is a freelance journalist and filmmaker working out of Asia and Australia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As surging waters swallowed the ground floor of Vee Keoheuy’s home, she hoisted herself out the window onto a rickety boat with her husband, children and grandchildren – in the dark. Officials had told her neighbours in Ban Mai that heavy rains required the opening of a spillway. The reality was that some 40km upstream of the village, on the Xe Pian river in Attapeu province, south­eastern Laos, hundreds of millions of cubic metres of water were gushing out of a dam that had failed and down into... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2159945/laos-dam-collapse-survivors-tell-devastating?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2159945/laos-dam-collapse-survivors-tell-devastating?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Aug 2018 05:15:30 +0000