Troops sent to help southern flood victims as Nakhon Si Thammarat airport closed for 2 more days

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Troops sent to help southern flood victims as Nakhon Si Thammarat airport closed for 2 more days

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has ordered troops to be sent to southern provinces to help flood victims, Army spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree disclosed on Saturday.

 

About 4,000 troops, 122 trucks and 26 flat-bottomed boat have been dispatched to flood-hit provinces together with two medic teams and two mobile kitchens which will prepare food for distribution to the hungry flood victims who may not be able to cook themselves or to buy food because of the flooding.

 

The troops will help move belongings of flood victims to higher grounds or safer places, to direct traffic in the flood-affected areas, to set up floodwalls, to get rid of rubbles or obstacles which may block roads, to distribute food to the needy and to provide medical care, said Colonel Winthai.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/troops-sent-help-southern-flood-victims-nakhon-si-thammarat-airport-closed-2-days/

 

 

 

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