In Thailand, flooding across the southern part of the country, has killed at least 35 people as unseasonal wet weather deluged the homes and businesses of around two million people. According to officials, mudslides have swamped at least one whole village in Khao Phanom district in Krabi province and five people are still missing in the area . Flood waters, more than two metres deep in some places, have continued to spread despite easing rainfall in recent days, while waterlogged soil has heightened the risk of landslides. Thousands of people have been forced to move into temporary shelters as the military continued to help evacuate those most at risk today. More than 100 districts in the ten provinces have now been declared disaster zones and nearly 6,000 people are in temporary shelters after 11 days of floods following evacuation by the government.Bad weather also caused thousands of tourists to be stranded on islands in the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea earlier in the week, but ferry and air links have now resumed to most holiday areas.
News On AIR | April 2, 2011 7:23 PM
35 killed in Thailand flood