Saturday 17 December 2011

Flood toll: 740 deaths, 3 missing

The combined flood toll nationwide is now 740 deaths with three missing, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Friday.

Altogether 3,652 villages in 80 districts of nine provinces in the upper part of the country are still sufferring from the flood. 

 They are Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Lop Buri, Suphan Buri, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Sakhon, and Bangkok. The accumulated flood toll in this part of the country is 730 deaths with three missing.

In the South, flooding has hit 2,057 villages in 65 districts of Phatthalung, Trang, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Narathiwat, Songkhla, Yala, and Pattani, causing extensive damage to farm land and public facilities. The death toll in these southern province is 10.

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