Bangkok Post – Provinces on alert after acid leak into river from Laos

The government is monitoring sulphuric acid contamination in the Mekong River on the Lao side of the border.

Local people in seven riverside provinces have also been warned to keep an eye out for the chemical leak which is expected to reach Thailand next week.

The contamination occurred in Laos’s Luang Prabang town where a lorry carrying more than 30…