Southerners deliver more assistance for flood victims in central Thailand

SONGKHLA, November 17 (TNA) - People in the Thai South and even those from neighbouring Malaysia have delivered additional assistance to flood victims in central Thailand, through the Chula Ratchamontri, or the country's Islamic spiritual leader. Chula Ratchamontri Asis Pithakkhumpol presided over a ceremony to release a caravan of the relief assistance, including clean drinking water, instant noodle, canned fish and a boat, from Thailand's southern Songkhla Province on Thursday. The over 400,000-baht relief assistance, the second batch of its kind, was donated by Thailand's southerners and people in the Malaysian northern Kedah and Perak States through the Chularatchamontri Office, the Chularatchamontri Southern Coordination Centre and the Islamic Council of Thailand, Songkhla Office. Last month, the Chularatchamontri Office in Songkhla released the first caravan of relief assistance, worth over 1.5 million baht, contributed by the same group of donors, for the flood victims in the country's central region, including Greater Bangkok. People in Thailand's five southernmost Muslim-predominant provinces, including Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani, Satun and Songkhla, have, meanwhile, continued contributing their assistance to the flood-affected people in central Thailand. (TNA)