Thongbanh Sengaphone (; 2 May 1953 – 17 May 2014) was a Laotian politician and member of the

Lao People's Revolutionary Party The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The party's monopoly on state power is guaranteed by Article 3 of the Constitution of Laos, and it maintains a unitary ...

(LPRP). He served as Minister of Public Security and held seats in the LPRP's

Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

(appointed at the 7th Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party) and the

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(appointed at the 8th Party Congress). On 17 May 2014, Sengaphone died when the plane he was traveling on crashed in northern Laos. He was traveling to

Xiangkhouang Province Xiangkhouang ( Lao: ຊຽງຂວາງ, meaning 'Horizontal City') is a province of Laos on the Xiangkhoang Plateau, in the nation's northeast. The province has the distinction of being the most heavily bombed place on Earth. The province ...

to attend a ceremony celebrating the 55th anniversary of the second division of the

Lao People's Army The Lao People's Armed Forces (LPAF; lo, ກອງທັບປະຊາຊົນລາວ), is the armed forces of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the institution of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, who are charged with protectin ...

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Lao People's Revolutionary Party politicians Members of the 7th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Members of the 9th Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Members of the 8th Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Members of the 9th Secretariat of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Governors of Bolikhamsai Government ministers of Laos 1953 births 2014 deaths Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Laos {{Laos-politician-stub