In a daily update by the disaster department, twenty-three people have died since July 5 due to the heavy rains which brought about some of the worst floods in years to Thailand’s rural northeast.
Junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha flew to the hardest-hit province of Sakon Nakhon on Wednesday to inspect a reservoir that had cracked under the downpour, triggering flash floods.
Flash floods have disrupted air travel, inundated rail tracks and swallowed farmland across the rice-farming region of Isaan, affecting more than one million Thais. Ten provinces are still battling severe floods as rains continue to lash the upper part of the northeast, according to the weather bureau.
In January unseasonal monsoons deluged Thailand’s south, leaving over 30 dead and wrecking infrastructure across the region.
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Source: Agence France-Presse, 3 August 2017