Mudslide damages 8 houses in Phuket, residents evacuated
Residents of eight homes at the foot of a deforested hill in Mueang district of Phuket were evacuated today, following a mudslide caused by heavy rainfall.
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Residents of eight homes at the foot of a deforested hill in Mueang district of Phuket were evacuated today, following a mudslide caused by heavy rainfall.
Forensic officers have recovered the remains of all nine people on board the Cessna Caravan plane which crashed into a mangrove swamp in Bang Pakong district of Chachoengsao province on August 22.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has prepared 1.5 million sandbags to strengthen the city’s flood walls, ahead of the arrival of northern runoffs, after the Royal Irrigation Department (RID) increased the discharge of water through the Chao Phraya Dam in Chainat province.
A remotely-controlled robot will be used to help in the search for and rescue of a Burmese and two Chinese workers trapped inside a collapsed train tunnel in Pak Chong district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima since Sunday.
The devastating flooding in Bangkok and several central provinces in 2011 may be repeated this year if four factors fall or fail to fall into place, Dr Sonthi Kochawat, an expert in the environment and health, wrote in his Facebook post today.
The Chonburi Shelter for Children and Families will take into their care an 11-year-old boy who was seen vaping an e-cigarette near a nightclub in Pattaya.
A rescue team has been racing against time to help three workers, one Chinese and two Myanmar nationals, trapped inside a collapsed train tunnel, under construction in Pak Chong district of Nakhon Ratchasima province, after they detected signs of life.
A lone robber escaped with an unspecified quantity of gold ornaments from a gold shop in Thung Song district of Nakhon Si Thammarat province last night, and left behind a fake bomb.
Workers have been placing additional sandbags on a damaged embankment, after strong currents in the swollen Yom River breached it in several places, inundating at least two communities in Pak Kwae sub-district in the Mueang district today.
A tunnel under construction for the Thai-Chinese high-speed railway collapsed at around midnight last night in Nakhon Ratchasima province.
Officials and labourers in Mueang district of Sukhothai province have been working frantically to close two gaping holes in an earth embankment, which collapsed under the pressure of strong currents in the Yom River, as runoffs from upstream Phrae flow through the province.
Forensic science investigators have identified four victims from the plane crash in Chachoengsao province from human remains recovered from the crash site, Pol Lt-Gen Trairong Phiwpan, commissioner of the Police Forensic Science Office, told the media today.