Thursday 15 December 2011

Flood toll: 708 dead, 3 missing

The accumulated nationwide flood toll is now 708 deaths with three people missing, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Wednesday.

A total of 3,652 villages in 80 districts of nine provinces in the upper part of the country - Bangkok, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Samut Sakhon - are still sufferring from the flood, which has caused 698 deaths and three people are still missing.

In the South, flooding has hit 2,057 villages in 65 districts of eight provinces - Phatthalung, Trang, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Narathiwat, Songkhla, Yala and Pattani - causing damage to 118,358 rai of farmland, seven monasteries and mosques, 30 schools, 10 government offices, 783 roads, 113 bridges, 19 weirs and 1,068 fish ponds.

Ten people are confirmed dead (one in Nakhon Si Thammarat, two each in Phatthalung, Songkhla and Yala, and three in Narathiwat).

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