Over 160 Thai nationals working in Laukkaing, a town in Myanmar’s Kokong Self-Administered Zone, on Thursday urged Thai authorities to bring them home within the next 24 hours, saying that the fighting between the Myanmar junta military and ethnic armed groups was moving closer to their camp.

The bodies of 17 people have been recovered after flash floods caused by a dam breach in southern Laos, a Thai consular official at the scene told AFP Wednesday.