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| Flooding in southern Thailand leaves 25 dead | |
| 2011-04-01 | |
| 25 people are dead after severe flooding in southern Thailand. Thousands have been evacuated after whole villages were engulfed by the rising waters. Floods more than a meter deep have washed across the south as unseasonably wet weather deluged the homes and businesses nearly a million people in what should be one of the hottest months of the year. Around 9,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas, including nearly 1,000 holidaymakers stranded on islands in the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea who were picked up by naval ships on Wednesday and Thursday. Thailand's army used its helicopters to air-drop aid into isolated areas on Friday and rescue elderly people trapped by the floods.
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| Posted by:ryuge |