Flood getting worse in Bangkok
The flood has spread to Thai Wattana district and residents were asked to seek shelter at evacuation centres while the Don Mueang evacuation centre at the Don Mueang Airport has to transfer more than 4,000 evacuees to other centres following the rising floodwater in the district.
The Don Mueang Airport, which caters for domestic flights, has been closed temporarily since yesterday until Nov 1 due to the flood.
However, the Flood Relief Operation Command Centre, the country's main flood operation centre, remained there although the whole of Don Mueang district has
been flooded.
Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra asked all its 50 districts to prepare
for the flood tonight as some four billion cubic meter of the floodwater runoff
from the north were expected to reach the capital tonight.
He said this coupled with the high sea tide which hamper the flow of the
floodwater into the Gulf of Thailand, thus threatening all parts of the capital
to be inundated.
The flood has already hit the northern, eastern and western parts of the
capital.
About one-third of the country remains inundated, with 2.4 million people from more than 10,000 villages in 26 provinces in the northern and central regions being affected by the floods which hit the country in stages since July 25.
The death toll has risen to 373 today.
Meanwhile, the Bank of Thailand said 295 bank branches in the flood-hit provinces had been temporarily closed to date.
More than 270 fuel stations and at least 270 convenience stores have also
halted their services temporarily due to the flood.
Over 14,000 factories which employ more than 660,000 workers are badly hit by the floods. - Bernama
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