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.
Eleven people were injured and two went missing, including the 10-year-old girl, identified as “Chutima”, when the house, from which they were trying to collect their belongings, collapsed into the river. 52-year-old Rachen Kamthong’s body was later found and recovered from the river.
The Royal Irrigation Department reported today that the water level in the Chao Phraya River in Mueang district of Nakhon Sawan dropped by 2cm today, to 2.09m below the banks.
The volume of water being discharged through the Chao Phraya Dam has remained at 2,199m3/s for four consecutive days.
Overflows from the Chao Phraya are, however affecting 295 households in eight villages in the In Buri district of Sing Buri province, forcing many people to take temporary refuge on the irrigation road. Municipal officials have been providing them with drinking water and temporary toilet facilities.
In the northern province of Lamphun, which is widely flooded by runoffs from Saraphli district of Chiang Mai, irrigation officials have sent an additional 50 huge water pumps to drain water out of the downtown area.
Twenty-seven villages in Mueang district have been declared disaster zones, in which more than 500 households have been badly affected by the flooding.
Yutthapong Chaisorn, the district chief officer, said that it will take about three weeks for the floodwater to be drained from the district, if the volume of water in the Ping River does not fall steadily.
Last night, residents were advised to brace for a new mass of water today, from Nong Chang Khuen sub-district, which will further exacerbate flooding problems in the district.
