Thailand: Severe flooding leaves up to 200 dead
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Thailand: Severe flooding leaves up to 200 dead
Posted: 09 November 2010 1248 hrs
BANGKOK: Severe flooding in Thailand has left at least 200 people dead over the past month, the authorities said Tuesday.
The government estimates that 7.8 million people have been affected, mainly in the northeast and south, with homes submerged and farmland damaged in what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described as "a huge natural calamity".
Fifty-one of Thailand's 76 provinces have been hit but the waters have now subsided in many areas, officials said.
In southern Songkhla province, where waters several metres high in places swept through the major city of Hat Yai last week, left up to 30 people killed.
Thousands of soldiers were dispatched to the area to help people stranded in their homes in the city of more than 150,000 people, popular with tourists from Singapore and Malaysia.
Bangkok has been on standby but has so far avoided major flooding.
Thailand: Severe flooding leaves up to 200 dead
Posted: 09 November 2010 1248 hrs
BANGKOK: Severe flooding in Thailand has left at least 200 people dead over the past month, the authorities said Tuesday.
The government estimates that 7.8 million people have been affected, mainly in the northeast and south, with homes submerged and farmland damaged in what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described as "a huge natural calamity".
Fifty-one of Thailand's 76 provinces have been hit but the waters have now subsided in many areas, officials said.
In southern Songkhla province, where waters several metres high in places swept through the major city of Hat Yai last week, left up to 30 people killed.
Thousands of soldiers were dispatched to the area to help people stranded in their homes in the city of more than 150,000 people, popular with tourists from Singapore and Malaysia.
Bangkok has been on standby but has so far avoided major flooding.
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