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A man climbs on a bamboo ladder to enter his flooded house through a second-floor window in Narathiwat on Thursday. (Photo by Waedao Harai)
Residents in many parts of Phatthalung, Yala, Trang, Narathiwat and Nakhon Si Thamarat were still battling major flooding on Thursday following heavy monsoon rain.
In Phatthalung, there were floods in 507 villages in 11 provinces, affecting 58,676 people of 29,327 households, local reports said.
As of Thursday morning, the Phetkasem and Asian highways running through the province were still under water and not passable to small vehicles.
An afternoon report said Asian Highway 41 was also cut by floodwater between Surat Thani and Chumphon, but there were detours available.
Somjit Songchudam, a 59-year-old villager of Moo 7 village in tambon Don Sai of Khuan Khanun district, reportedly drowned after falling into a canal and swept away by a strong current.
A 300-metre section of the railway track running through the province, submerged by high water, had been damaged.
In Yala province, water in the Sai Buri River which runs through six tambons of Raman district had receded to normal in many areas. Riverside communities, however, were still inundated.
Ten schools in Raman district remained closed because roads to them were still flooded.
In Trang, runoff from the Banthat mountain range, which had flooded many localities in Nayong and Muang district for the past three days, had flowed into Trang Municipality from the East and inundated Kaphang Surin, Phraya Rassadanuprasit Monument, Khuan Khan, Khuan Khanun and sports stadium communities, reports said.
Courtesy of bangkokpost.com
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