Following 300 Nonthaburi residents’ gathering at the city hall this afternoon, November 20, to demand the authorities to open 6 more floodgates at Mahasawat canal in order to reduce the water level in the province and Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Boripat’s refusal to comply, Irrigation Department and Nonthaburi provincial officials have agreed to open a number […]
BANGKOK, Nov 20 – Flood-related death toll from Thailand’s worst flooding in decades has risen to 602, while two persons are still reported missing, according to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department. As of Nov 20, 125 districts in 17 provinces remain under water, affecting 5,078,477 people, it said in a daily report of the […]
Nonthaburi Governor Wichian Phutthiwinyu yesterday assigned a team to hunt for 15 deadly green mamba snakes that escaped from a flooded home in Pak Kret district on Tuesday. Saying that none of the creatures had been confirmed captured, Wichian urged people not to try to capture or kill the yellowishgreen snakes of 12 metres in […]
NONTHABURI, Oct 26 – Thailand’s Corrections Department on Wednesday said 17 busloads of 617 convicted prison inmates with serious offences, including condemned prisoners, are being moved from Bang Kwang Prison in Nonthaburi as rising floodwater is threatening the maximum security prison. Police, commandos, and corrections officials are guarding a throng of security buses going in […]
PATHUM THANI, 26 October 2011 (NNT) – Four residents in Nonthaburi reportedly suffered toxic smoke inhalation after the embankment in Pathum Thani province broke open yesterday. According to rescue volunteers from Pohtecktung Foundation, the water pierced through a leak on the embankment near Nonthaburi Bridge around the Suan Somdej junction in Pathum Thani province, causing […]
BANGKOK, 25 October 2011 (NNT) – A leading expert has warned Bangkokians to prepare to live with floods, which may persist for a long time. While the government seems reluctant to clarify the flood situation in inner Bangkok, Assoc. Prof. Seri Suparatit of Rangsit University has answered Bangkokians’ doubt, making it clear that the capital […]
Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi are heavily submerged after flood water rages through Prapa canal and continues to rise. After days of struggling with flood prevention supported by 4.5 metre flood barriers, Bang Kadee industrial estate in Pathum Thani has been submerged, with damage to all 47 factories estimated at Bt30 billion. Panic reigned at Rangsit […]
The floods from the North have finally entered inner Bangkok, causing traffic jams and the closure of a shopping mall, and the Bangkok governor says seven districts are threatened – but residents will have about 24 hours warning. In adjoining Nonthaburi, all districts are flooded. Read more: Bangkok Post
