Rice Shortages Hamper Recovery Efforts in Laos

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Dam broke a few days ago.

Rice Shortages Hamper Recovery Efforts in Laos
2018-12-31

Rice shortages are the latest setback in Laos’ relief efforts for victims of the country’s worst flood disaster in decades.

The rupture of a dam in July inundated 12 villages and killed at least 43 people in Champassak and Attapeu provinces, leaving hundreds more missing. Now up to 3,000 victims are facing hardship as relief rice is running out.

“We don’t have enough rice to distribute to the victims,” a labor and social welfare official in Attapeu’s Sanamxay district told RFA’s Lao Service on Friday.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/rice-shortage-12312018140625.html