Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared

A flood exigency catastrophe has been declared crossed Bangkok aft 48 hours of dense rainfall near roads successful the Thai superior submerged.

People person been urged to enactment astatine location and those surviving adjacent to the city's web of canals person been advised to determination their belongings to precocious floors.

Thunderstorms are communal successful Thailand astatine this clip of twelvemonth but utmost upwind successful caller days has inundated Bangkok's drainage system, causing postulation chaos connected roads that are already famously congested.

The rainfall is expected to proceed into Sunday, raising fears that much canals could burst their banks.

Somkid Pheuk-ngam, a 67-year-old who lives adjacent a canal conscionable northbound of cardinal Bangkok, told the AFP quality agency: "The h2o keeps coming in. It's hard to spell retired now. It's similar astatine my waist level now.

"I cannot spell anywhere. I person been closing my store for 2 days now."

She said h2o levels successful the metropolis appeared to beryllium worse than successful 2011, erstwhile Bangkok was impacted by nationwide flooding.

Hundreds were killed crossed Thailand past successful an utmost upwind lawsuit that lasted for 3 months. So far, nary casualties person been reported successful Bangkok from this latest flooding.

The Thai Meteorological Service has forecast much dense rainfall done the week, though the country of debased unit causing the downpours of caller days is expected to determination towards cardinal Thailand.

All 50 of Bangkok's districts person been declared exigency zones.

Chadchart Sittipunt, the city's governor, said the eastbound of the metropolis had been hardest hit, AFP reported.

He continued: "The rainfall keeps falling and we are doing our best. We are trying to pump the h2o out, but the h2o successful canals are full... The hazard areas are those who unrecorded adjacent canals. Every canal is present filled."