webfact Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 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 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenifer d Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 so sad to hear, we have had torrential rains these last several weeks here in Krabi, even some flooding on our island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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