The Flood Relief Operations Centre has moved people from its evacuation site in Bangkok Don Muang Airport to a shelter inside a college in Chon Buri, after it looked like the compound might get submerged.

FROC spokesman Wim Rungwatthanajinda said more than 100 buses were being used to move some 4,000 evacuees and the job should be completed in four hours, he said yesterday at 6.30pm. Another potential shelter is Bangkok’s National Stadium, now that the Rajamangala Stadium in Hua Mark is already accommodating evacuees.

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