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Residents evacuated as Kra Buri River floods low-lying homes in Ranong

By The Nation

 

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Flat-bottomed boats are moved to the Pak Jan Police Station compound in readiness to help with the evacuation of residents. The rising waters have forced residents to seek safer ground.

 

Days of heavy rains caused the swollen Kra Buri River to flood low-lying homes and force out residents in Tambon Pak Jan of Ranong's Kra Buri district on Friday.

 

Local officials and agencies evacuated the affected residents, giving special attention to ailing seniors, as they moved them to safer ground. Urgency was added by the prospect of floodwaters from the Tanaosri Mountain Range forest worsening the situation later on Friday night.

 

Tambon Pak Jan Administrative Organisation president Weerasing Kochasing said 13 homes in Ban Plai Khlong Wan (Moo 9) were flooded and their occupants evacuated.

 

Officials in Kra Buri district Chalermpol Kru-ampho ordered the opening of a royally-granted mobile kitchen to aid flood victims later on Friday. Weerasing said farmlands weren't affected by this flood, although the water intrusion posed some difficulties to farmers who are about to harvest mangosteen.

 

Meanwhile, Ranong Provincial Administrative Organisation president Waranon Kleansin said that the agency had sent three flat-bottomed boats to act on standby at the Pak Jan Police Station's compound to help with the residents' evacuation.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374556

 

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17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Residents evacuated as Kra Buri River floods low-lying homes in Ranong

When it rains it pours, when it pours it floods, when it floods Thais do what they've always done.. get wet and get over it!

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