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Wed, 06/29/2011 - 08:08
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Thai PM visits northern flood victims
NAN, June 29 (TNA) - Caretaker prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is on a one-day trip to Thailand's northern Nan Province on Tuesday to visit flood victims and to inspect the critical flooding situation there.
Abhisit left Bangkok in the morning and was visiting flood victims and inspecting the inundation situation in Nan's Muang and Wieng Sa Districts, where more than 2,000 local households, farmlands and even land communication routes have seriously been affected by the 1-2 metre-flooding over the past couple of days, caused by heavy and continuing downpours with mudslides in some areas, as the Haima storm was passing through the Thai North after hitting neighbouring Vietnam.
Nan Governor Seni Jitkasem has declared all 15 districts in the province flooded disaster zones to provide effective assistance to the local flood victims. Other heavily-flooded areas in Nan include Pua, Ta Wieng Pha, and Phu Pieng Districts, with inundations in some areas rising above two meters, forcing local people living in the affected areas to have been cut off from the outside world due to communication disruptions.
Dozens of schools in Nan's flood-hit areas have been indefinitely closed and chief of the Doi Phu Ka National Park has also ordered the temporary closure of the national park, located in Pue District, until the heavy flooding relieves.
Several other areas in the Thai North, including Phrae, Lampang, Phayao, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son and Tak have also been flooded, with a total of some five people having been reportedly killed in the northern flooded areas so far. In Mae Hong Son, more than 30 flood victims have also been infected with dengue fever, carried by mosquitoes in flooded areas, although local authorities confirmed to have brought the situation under control with no fatalities so far.
As relief supplies have been dispatched to the flood victims in the Thai North, including those provided by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and other members of the Royal Thai Family, the Meteorological Department has warned of more heavy rainfalls in the country's northern eastern and the central regions over the next couple of days, with strong winds and high waves offshore, due to a low-pressure ridge and a southwest monsoon in the Andaman Sea. (TNA)
Abhisit left Bangkok in the morning and was visiting flood victims and inspecting the inundation situation in Nan's Muang and Wieng Sa Districts, where more than 2,000 local households, farmlands and even land communication routes have seriously been affected by the 1-2 metre-flooding over the past couple of days, caused by heavy and continuing downpours with mudslides in some areas, as the Haima storm was passing through the Thai North after hitting neighbouring Vietnam.
Nan Governor Seni Jitkasem has declared all 15 districts in the province flooded disaster zones to provide effective assistance to the local flood victims. Other heavily-flooded areas in Nan include Pua, Ta Wieng Pha, and Phu Pieng Districts, with inundations in some areas rising above two meters, forcing local people living in the affected areas to have been cut off from the outside world due to communication disruptions.
Dozens of schools in Nan's flood-hit areas have been indefinitely closed and chief of the Doi Phu Ka National Park has also ordered the temporary closure of the national park, located in Pue District, until the heavy flooding relieves.
Several other areas in the Thai North, including Phrae, Lampang, Phayao, Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son and Tak have also been flooded, with a total of some five people having been reportedly killed in the northern flooded areas so far. In Mae Hong Son, more than 30 flood victims have also been infected with dengue fever, carried by mosquitoes in flooded areas, although local authorities confirmed to have brought the situation under control with no fatalities so far.
As relief supplies have been dispatched to the flood victims in the Thai North, including those provided by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej and other members of the Royal Thai Family, the Meteorological Department has warned of more heavy rainfalls in the country's northern eastern and the central regions over the next couple of days, with strong winds and high waves offshore, due to a low-pressure ridge and a southwest monsoon in the Andaman Sea. (TNA)
