Up to 50,000 residents of In Buri district of Sing Buri, Thailand may be evacuated if the broken dyke at the Bang Chom Sri water sluice gate cannot be fixed fast enough, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday.

Ms Yingluck made an aerial inspection of the gate aboard a helicopter and later checked the damage from the ground.

She said if the dyke was not repaired fast enough to slow the water now gushing through the breached spots into farmland and residential areas, around 40,000-50,000 residents may have to be evacuated to nearby military barracks.

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