The death toll from Thailand's crippling floods has risen to over 120. Thai Officials said this today after the weeks-long crisis spread south and affected tens of thousands more people, including tourists.Rising waters began to inundate the southern region late Monday after days of heavy downpours, leaving eight dead in Songkhla province.Thousands of soldiers have been dispatched to the area to help people stranded in their homes after flash floods swept through Hat Yai.So far more than six million people have been affected by the kingdom's floods, with homes submerged and farmland or cattle destroyed, in what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described as a huge natural calamity.