Flooding worsens in Thailand’s southern provinces, roads impassable

Sixteen roads in the southern provinces of Songkhla, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat are impassable due to widespread flooding, as rain continues unabated, according to the Highways Department. Yala faces worst flooding in twenty years The department reported late Wednesday night that 63 roads were flooded or hit by landslides, leaving 16 of them impassable, while […]

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Yala faces worst flooding in twenty years

The Mueang district of southern province of Yala is facing the worst flooding in about two decades, as the Provincial Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office is advising people in Betong, Than To, Bannang Sata, Kabang, Yaha and Krong Pinang districts to brace for possible mud slides and flash floods. Muslim prayer leader shot dead […]

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Bombs injure 3 at Guanyin statue site in Songkhla

SONGKHLA – Three people, one a 9-year-old, were injured by two exploding grenades fired into a construction camp for the world’s tallest Guanyin statue in Thepha district on Wednesday morning. Car bomb rocks Pattani in southern Thailand Two more explosions occurred later in the morning on a roadside near the same camp, causing no injuries […]

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