Mudslides swamp Chiang Mai village

By The Nation

 

 

CHIANG MAI: -- Flash floods and landslides damaged 20 homes in Chiang Mai’s Chaiya Prakan district on Tuesday morning.

 

There were no injuries, but most of the village of Ban Tham Ngob in Tambon Nong Bua was covered in mud and several sections of road were blocked by fallen trees.

 

Officials will be keeping a close watch on hillsides in the district for the duration of the rainy season.

 

Pairin Limcharoen, head of the province’s disaster prevention and mitigation office, blamed the damage on heavy rainfall that began at 2am. The accumulated runoff reached the village at about 8am.

 

Fast-moving floodwater knocked property walls onto two homes and damaged another 20 houses, Pairin said, affecting 70 residents. They’d been given flood-relief kits.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30327726

 

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Muddy hell!