Army helps flood threatened Tak villages

Colonel Padung Yingpaiboonsuk, the force leader, said floodwaters had cut a 120-metre-long bridge across the Mae Teun River and marooned the communities, prompting the military and village headmen to build a helicopter landing PAD in each village.

Apart from helicopters, the Army is ready to dispatch all-terrain vehicles (ATV) to help the villagers, he added.

Meanwhile, 4,470 homes in 65 villages and 56,278 rai of farmland along the Pasak-Chai Nat Canal in Lop Buri's Ban Mee district are flooded as rain continues to fall and the Chao Phaya Dam has released more than 2,000 cubic meters per second of water throughout the past week.

As water levels increased by 1cm-5cm per hour, Tambons Nong Muang, Phu Kha, Hin Pak and Nong Sai Khao reported boats were the only means of transport in the one-metre-deep floodwaters.

In Ang Thong, provincial governor Wisao Sasitmit declared Pamok district's Tambon Phongh Pheng as a disaster zone, while sandbags were piled for flood barriers and residents moved their belongings away from rising water.