PHOTO: AFP
Local officials say seven districts in Ubon Ratchathani, north-east Thailand, are still flooded, including the districts of Muang, Warin Chamrap and Sawang Weerawong, where the situation is described as serious.
Satellite images show that around a hundred and forty,000 rai of land along the Moon and Chi rivers remains to be flooded.
The flooding, a culmination of storm Podul and tropical despair Kajiki, has so far devastated over 40,000 households in 25 districts, destroying more than 400 homes and causing serious damage to another 5,500.
It’s estimated that more than 600,000 rai of farmland, which includes over 500,000 rai of rice farms in 23 districts, has been broken. Three individuals have been killed.
The road by the Moon river in Muang district is now accessible to vehicles once extra, on account of the water degree lastly dropping under the riverbank. The drainage of water from the river into the Mekong continues.
First -lying areas in the district had been beneath two metres of water at the height of the disaster. The clean-up within the area is ongoing, with properties filled with sediment from the floodwaters..