BANGKOK, Oct 16 – Flood waters on Bangkok’s eastern approaches will be completely drained into the Gulf of Thailand and the flooding situation should be back to normal the middle of next month, a senior flood management official said yesterday.

Royol Chitradon, director of the Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute, said depression Nari would move towards the northeastern provinces of Mukdaharn and Amnart Charoen last night, bringing heavy rainfall and floods higher than 100 mm, or rain volume at 30 mm in Prachin Buri and Chachoengsao in the eastern region.

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