BANGKOK: The death toll from flooding in southern Thailand has risen to 25, officials said on Tuesday (Dec 3), with days more heavy rain forecast.
Flooding since Nov 22 has affected more than 660,000 homes in the south, the country’s disaster agency said on its Facebook page.
Suwas Bin-Uma, a chicken farm owner in Songkhla, told state broadcaster Thai PBS that the floods had wiped out his entire flock of more than 10,000 chickens.
“I’ve lost at least 3 million baht (US$87,000),” he said.
More than 22,000 people have been displaced from their homes due to flooding in Pattani, Narathiwat, Songkhla and Yala provinces, the Thai government’s public relations department said.
Footage on social media showed residents in Songkhla province stacking up sandbags in front of their homes on Monday in an attempt to block the swelling floodwater.
The head of a village in Yala province, Abdullah Abu, told local media that flooding in his area had reached up to 7m.
People were receiving one meal a day from a rescue team, he told Channel 7.
