Relief Officials Speed On Assisting Flood Victims In Thai South

BANGKOK, November 27 (TNA) - Relief officials in the flood-stricken Thai South on Sunday tried to restore areas which have been damaged by flash flood following torrential downpours in the past few days. In Surat Thani province, heavy machineries were sent to repair a bridge which was collapsed due to water runoff, cutting villagers from communicating with the outside world in the past two days. Equipped with machinery, provincial governor Theerayuth Iamtrakul, accompanied by a group of military development, rushed to repair the bridge in a village in Kanchanadit district. The bridge was damaged two days ago, forcing more than 80 households to be isolated from the outside world. Theerayuth is confident that the repairs would be completed tonight. But heavy rain began again Sunday afternoon, making the repairing works to be under difficult condition. Meanwhile, seabass raisers in Songkhla Lake are now facing hardships after many fishes continued to die due to water which has begun to pollute coupled with contaminated chemical substance released from industrial plants and ricefield. Fish raisers have urged concerned government agencies to urgently help them solved the problem while they have already started selling fishes on fears of more damages. A village headman in Trang province made a survey of houses built along the banks of swollen Trang river and found that more than 50 of them were damaged after water overflowed the banks and inundated the houses. House owners have to travel by boat while the water level of the river keeps on rising steadily. (TNA)