July 26 (UPI) -- Officials issued evacuation orders to an estimated 25,000 people in northern Cambodia on Thursday as a collapsed dam in nearby Laos flooded the area.
Stung Treng provincial authorities are working through the day and night to evacuate about 25,000 residents as flood waters run through Siem Pang, Sekong River, raising water levels up to 39 feet, Cambodia's state news agency reported. The flood has inundated 17 villages of four communes in the district, the state news agency reported.