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Thai PM orders evacuation of people from areas at risk of flash floods and landslides
BANGKOK, March 28 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday (March 28) that he had ordered officials concerned to evacuate local people in areas at risk of flash floods and landslides in Thailand's southern region to safe places, as the Meteorological Department has warned of possible heavy downpours in the South until the end of this month.
Abhisit told reporters after his weekly programme, “Confidence in Thailand with Premier Abhisit”, that he had also instructed agencies concerned to immediately send relief assistance to people in the flood-stricken areas.
During his weekly program, which was broadcast nationwide, Abhisit invited authorities concerned, including chiefs of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Meteorological Department and governors of flood-hit provinces in the South to discuss the current flooding situation.
The Thai premier was reported that 722 villages in 21 districts of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province have been declared flood-stricken disaster zones where 30,000 households or about 80,000 people have remained in troubles and the high inundations have killed three people and caused damages worth about 300 million baht so far. However, the Asian Highway in the province hardest hit by the current floods is still passable.
The prime minister was also informed that in Phatthalung, 347 villages in eight districts have been affected by the heavy floods. Abhisit said that his government will allocate additional budgets to the affected provinces which have run out of their own relief funds.
Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department said in its updated report that a low pressure mass would pass Nakhon Si Thammarat and Phatthalung toward the Andaman Sea on Monday; so, downpours should be subsiding in both the heavily-flood provinces. However, the weather bureau warned that there will be more downpours in Ranong and Phuket Provinces instead, and that heavy downpours in Thailand's southern region may continue until the end of this month. (TNA)
Abhisit told reporters after his weekly programme, “Confidence in Thailand with Premier Abhisit”, that he had also instructed agencies concerned to immediately send relief assistance to people in the flood-stricken areas.
During his weekly program, which was broadcast nationwide, Abhisit invited authorities concerned, including chiefs of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Meteorological Department and governors of flood-hit provinces in the South to discuss the current flooding situation.
The Thai premier was reported that 722 villages in 21 districts of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province have been declared flood-stricken disaster zones where 30,000 households or about 80,000 people have remained in troubles and the high inundations have killed three people and caused damages worth about 300 million baht so far. However, the Asian Highway in the province hardest hit by the current floods is still passable.
The prime minister was also informed that in Phatthalung, 347 villages in eight districts have been affected by the heavy floods. Abhisit said that his government will allocate additional budgets to the affected provinces which have run out of their own relief funds.
Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department said in its updated report that a low pressure mass would pass Nakhon Si Thammarat and Phatthalung toward the Andaman Sea on Monday; so, downpours should be subsiding in both the heavily-flood provinces. However, the weather bureau warned that there will be more downpours in Ranong and Phuket Provinces instead, and that heavy downpours in Thailand's southern region may continue until the end of this month. (TNA)
