Tuesday, 22. October 2002
Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 11:14:40 AM CEST
Mystery Thai fireballs a damp squib
Almost half a million people have flocked to witness the annual rising of fireballs from the Mekong where the river snakes between Thailand and Laos, but the phenomenon turned out to be a damp squib. A four-hour downpour from twilight on Monday put the dampers on the show for most of the crowd camped out along a 10-km (six-mile) stretch of river bank opposite the Laotian capital of Vientiane.
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