Police officer killed in Pattani last night
Violence in Thailand’s southernmost province of Pattani continued last night, when a 43-year-old police sergeant was killed in an ambush on his police box in Muang district.
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Violence in Thailand’s southernmost province of Pattani continued last night, when a 43-year-old police sergeant was killed in an ambush on his police box in Muang district.
While some riverside communities in Pakkret district of Nonthaburi province have been flooded by overflows from the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has offered his assurance that the city is safe from flooding, unless the volume of water being discharged through the Chao Phraya Dam in Chainat province exceeds 3,000m3/s.
Tankhun Jitt-itsara, an MP-turned-activist, has called for an investigation into an elephant centre in Chiang Mai that failed to relocate its elephants before a major flood hit the area, resulting in the deaths of two blind jumbos.
The search resumed today for a 10-year-old girl who went missing yesterday, after her parents’ riverside house collapsed into the Yom River in Sawankhalok district of Sukhothai province.
The Cabinet decided today to provide a standard Bt9,000 in compensation to each of 67,296 households, which have sought financial help from the government, in 50 provinces affected by flooding.
A command centre has been set up in Lamphun’s Muang district, in preparation for emergencies and evacuations, as floodwater flowing from Chiang Mai has reached the province, according to Mueang Lamphun district chief Yutthapong Chaisorn.
Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province has applied to the Intellectual Property Department for trademark certification for the zoo’s iconic Moo Deng pygmy hippo calf and is awaiting approval, the zoo’s director, Narongwit Chodchoi said today.
Sixteen riverside communities in Bangkok are being advised to move their belongings to higher ground, check electrical plugs and to keep updated on water conditions in the Chao Phraya River, in light of the increase in the rate of water being discharged through the Chao Phraya Dam and the high tides expected from October 13th until the 23rd.
A Royal cremation is being held today at Khao Phraya Sangkharam Temple School in Lan Sak district of Uthai province for 20 students and three teachers, who died when a double-decked coach, taking them on an educational field trip to Nonthaburi, caught fire on Vibhavadi Rangsit highway on October 1st.
Residents and businesses in downtown Chiang Mai have started to clean their properties and assess the extent of the damage today as floodwaters recede.
The Kesa Komon Bridge in Bangkok’s Dusit district will remain closed for at least five more days for major repairs, after the approach road to the bridge collapsed Sunday night, leaving a sinkhole about three metres deep, ten metres long and five metres wide, due to the construction of a dam in the Prem Prachakon Canal.
The only partial opening of five of the six downstream sluice gates on the Ping River and garbage mounting up in front of the gates have been blamed for the slow discharge of water from the swollen river and the subsequent flooding of areas of Chiang Mai province.