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Heavy downpours predicted in 15 Thai provinces in coming days
BANGKOK, June 4 (TNA) - The Ministry of Interior's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has warned people in 15 provinces in Thailand's central, eastern and southern regions to beware of heavy downpours, flash floods and landslides over the coming days.
The department's director-general Wibul Sanguangpong said that the provinces at risk include Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chon Buri, Rayong, Chanthaburi, Trat, Nakhon Nayok, Prachin Buri, Ranong, Phangnga, Phuket, Krabi and Trang.
Wibul cautioned that the 15 Thai provinces should brace for heavy downpours with possible flash floods and landslides from June 3 to 7, advising local people in low lying areas to watch out for signs of flash floods and landslides, namely the colour of streams turning like the colour of soil on mountains, frightened wild animals, loud noises from catchment areas, soaring river levels and fallen trees flowing with rainwater, particularly when rainfalls continue longer than six hours or are measure more than 100 millimeters; if so, local people need to evacuate to safe places immediately.
Wibul said that continuing downpours over the past days have prompted his department to remove 20 provinces from a list of drought-stricken areas, most of them are in the Thai North and the Northeast, and that some 19,000 people in 16 localities of Nong Phai and Wichianburi Districts in the northern Phetchabun Province have been affected by flash floods caused by heavy rainfalls since earlier this week, one of them has died; while relief workers are surveying damages and offering assistance to the flood victims.
In adjacent Pitsanulok Province, Governor Preecha Ruangjan has ordered authorities in the province's nine districts to evacuate local people in 111 disaster-prone villages to highlands as a precaution after the Meteorological Department has issued a latest warning that some 70 per cent of overall areas in the Thai North are likely to face heavy downpours in the coming days. (TNA)
The department's director-general Wibul Sanguangpong said that the provinces at risk include Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chon Buri, Rayong, Chanthaburi, Trat, Nakhon Nayok, Prachin Buri, Ranong, Phangnga, Phuket, Krabi and Trang.
Wibul cautioned that the 15 Thai provinces should brace for heavy downpours with possible flash floods and landslides from June 3 to 7, advising local people in low lying areas to watch out for signs of flash floods and landslides, namely the colour of streams turning like the colour of soil on mountains, frightened wild animals, loud noises from catchment areas, soaring river levels and fallen trees flowing with rainwater, particularly when rainfalls continue longer than six hours or are measure more than 100 millimeters; if so, local people need to evacuate to safe places immediately.
Wibul said that continuing downpours over the past days have prompted his department to remove 20 provinces from a list of drought-stricken areas, most of them are in the Thai North and the Northeast, and that some 19,000 people in 16 localities of Nong Phai and Wichianburi Districts in the northern Phetchabun Province have been affected by flash floods caused by heavy rainfalls since earlier this week, one of them has died; while relief workers are surveying damages and offering assistance to the flood victims.
In adjacent Pitsanulok Province, Governor Preecha Ruangjan has ordered authorities in the province's nine districts to evacuate local people in 111 disaster-prone villages to highlands as a precaution after the Meteorological Department has issued a latest warning that some 70 per cent of overall areas in the Thai North are likely to face heavy downpours in the coming days. (TNA)
