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Severe floods continue hitting several Thai regions
BANGKOK, October 2 (TNA) - Millions of people living in the North, Central and Northeast regions are continuing to suffer from severe floods which have brought disaster to Thailand for about two months now. The continuing disaster is considered by weather experts to be the worst one in several past decades in this country.
In the northern province of Phichit, officials and villagers carried corpses and equipment used for Buddhist religious ceremony on flat-bottomed boats and headed for a temple in Pho Prathap Chang District for funeral. But moving bodies into the boats was extremely difficult because of the strong current while flood levels in nearby areas were as high as two metres.
In nearby Lampang Province, water runoff from a mountain had overflowed a river late Saturday. Villagers living near the river which is in Hang Chat District rushed to place sandbags to prevent flood from inundating their homes.
Monks and novices at temples in a village of Saraphi District of the northern capital of Chiang Mai Province began to clean temples which were hit by mudslides earlier.
Several villagers’ houses in the Central province of Lop Buri were damaged after heavy trucks passed through the flooded road linking between Lop Buri and Sing Buri Provinces.
Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Theera Wongsamut now on a mission to inspect flooding situation in Sing Buri ordered workers to close the damaged Bang Chom Sri water sluice gate after it was found that a large amount of floodwaters flowed towards the provincial seat.
A large crocodile which had earlier escaped from a farm and stayed at a villager house in Uthai Thani Province was eventually captured by the villagers, bringing a relief to the frightened house owner.
The situation in the Northeastern region was not much different from other regions. Several villagers in Ubon Ratchathani Province were reportedly suffering from a severe stress after their houses have been under water several weeks. (TNA)
In the northern province of Phichit, officials and villagers carried corpses and equipment used for Buddhist religious ceremony on flat-bottomed boats and headed for a temple in Pho Prathap Chang District for funeral. But moving bodies into the boats was extremely difficult because of the strong current while flood levels in nearby areas were as high as two metres.
In nearby Lampang Province, water runoff from a mountain had overflowed a river late Saturday. Villagers living near the river which is in Hang Chat District rushed to place sandbags to prevent flood from inundating their homes.
Monks and novices at temples in a village of Saraphi District of the northern capital of Chiang Mai Province began to clean temples which were hit by mudslides earlier.
Several villagers’ houses in the Central province of Lop Buri were damaged after heavy trucks passed through the flooded road linking between Lop Buri and Sing Buri Provinces.
Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Theera Wongsamut now on a mission to inspect flooding situation in Sing Buri ordered workers to close the damaged Bang Chom Sri water sluice gate after it was found that a large amount of floodwaters flowed towards the provincial seat.
A large crocodile which had earlier escaped from a farm and stayed at a villager house in Uthai Thani Province was eventually captured by the villagers, bringing a relief to the frightened house owner.
The situation in the Northeastern region was not much different from other regions. Several villagers in Ubon Ratchathani Province were reportedly suffering from a severe stress after their houses have been under water several weeks. (TNA)
