Vain search for child
Tanthip Tephanan holds a picture of her only child, Nong Earn, as she asks rescuers to look for the infant.
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A grief-stricken mother yesterday pleaded with every rescue worker she met to help locate her three-month-old daughter who went missing when flash floods tore down several houses in Laplae district early Tuesday.
"Please help me find her. She's my only kid," Tantip Tephanan, 34, said as she clutched a framed photo of her baby in her arms. Tantip, who was injured in the disaster, said it was her greatest sorrow not to know about her only child's fate. "I tried so hard for three years to conceive. But I only had the pleasure of being a mother for three months," she said. Tantip had infertility problems and has no hope of becoming pregnant again. The disaster killed her mother and her sister-in-law. Her elder brother and her niece were seriously injured. "I just wish I could find my daughter's body and hold proper funeral rites for her," she said. As of yesterday, there were 67 confirmed deaths and 36 people reported as missing after the devastating floods swept through the northern province of Uttaradit.
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