BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Heavy rain and flash floods have continued to hit Thailand’s southern provinces, inundating roads and halting train and airline services in some areas, Bangkok Post reported.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said flash floods and runoff from local mountains have hit nine out of the 14 southern provinces, inundating almost 60 districts.
In Nakhon Si Thammarat province, steady rain over the past four days triggered runoff from two mountains and caused unprecedented flooding, with some main roads and residential communities under two metres of water, the paper said.
Meanwhile, water levels have receded in the deep south – the provinces near the Thai-Malaysia border – especially in Yala where earlier floods disrupted the lives of some 52,000 people.
Thailand is recovering from the worst flooding in half a century which affected the capital Bangkok and nearby provinces, killing more than 600 people and affecting some 12 million since July.
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