JAKARTA – The Thai government announces that the death toll in floods has reached 25 people.
Thailand’s Disaster Management Agency said flooding since November 22 had soaked more than 660,000 homes in southern Thailand as of Tuesday (November 3).
Suwas Bin-Uma, owner of a chicken farm in Songkhla province, told PBS reporters that the flooding had wiped out all his chicken flocks, which numbered more than 10,000.
“I lost at least three million baht ($87,000),” he said, as quoted by AFP on Tuesday, December 3.
According to Thailand’s Ministry of Public Affairs, more than 22,000 people have been displaced due to floods that have submerged their homes in Pattani, Narathiwat, Songkhla and Yala provinces.
Images on social media showed residents in Songkhla province piling up sandbags in front of their homes on Monday, December 2, in an attempt to break overflowing floodwaters.
The head of a village in Yala province, Abdullah Abu, told local media Channel 7 that floods in the area had reached a height of seven meters.
He said the SAR team provides food assistance once a day.
In Malaysia, the region was also flooded. Houses are surrounded by puddles and residents have thrown water bottlenecks from their homes.
Malaysia’s disaster officials said on Tuesday that more than 94,000 people had not returned home after being evacuated due to flooding, with five having died.
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