Driver drowns as flash flood sweeps pickup off Krabi road

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Driver drowns as flash flood sweeps pickup off Krabi road

By The Nation

 

KRABI: -- A Krabi motorist drowned on Monday morning after turbulent floodwaters swept her pickup truck off a road in Khao Phanom district.

Police said Kanchana Chukham, 40, was driving home from Mueang Krabi at about 8.30am and was a kilometre from her house in Tambon Phru Diew in Khao Phanom when the tragedy occurred.

 

They said the floodwater was 80 centimetres deep along a 100-metre stretch of the road and flowing sideways across it in a strong current.

 

The pickup was flipped over and wedged between palm trees 50 metres from the roadway.

 

Rescue workers aided by about 50 passers-by used rope to tow the truck back to the roadway. Kanchana’s body was still inside.

 

She was the wife of Pongsak Chukham, a member of the Phru Diew Tambon Council.

 

District chief Aroon Sing-in said flash flooding had damaged 10 houses in Moo 1 village and 15 more in Moo 4, both in the same tambon.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30323745

 

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[jenifer d]

so sad to hear, we have had torrential rains these last several weeks here in Krabi, even some flooding on our island