Watermassa bereikt Bangkok

Premier Yingluck Shinawatra heeft de inwoners van de 15 miljoen mensen tellende agglomeratie opgeroepen om uit voorzorg hun bezittingen naar hoger gelegen plekken te verplaatsen. Veel bewoners hamsteren voedsel en water. Autobezitters hebben honderden wagens geparkeerd op viaducten.
Bewaking

Doden

Regio

Water reaches Bangkok
English version by Google Translate
Residential areas in the north of Bangkok were flooded. The floods were inevitable after the government decided Thursday to open up some locks. The reason for this drastic decision was unsustainable pressure, the water began to put on the miles of emergency levees of sand bags around the Thai capital. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the inhabitants of the 15 million people calling for a precautionary component agglomeration their belongings to higher ground to move. Many residents hoarding food and water. Car owners have hundreds of cars parked on overpasses.
Tens of thousands of soldiers were deployed to keep order. They should include temporary dikes protect against vandals, who thus the water level in their own habitat would decrease. The government has also set up evacuation centers and additional parking. For historic buildings and the international airport, with extra security. The opposition demands that the government proclaims state of emergency.
Since a few months Thailand suffers from the worst floods in fifty years. At least 350 Thai, many of them children, were killed by this disaster. Of the 77 counties, 27 faces floods. The affected parts are nearly nine million people. Many of the property is destroyed or damaged. The economic damage from the flooding rose to at least 4.5 billion euros. Hundreds of factories in Thailand are temporarily closed.
Besides Thailand, also other countries in the region suffer under the impact of the heaviest monsoon rains in ages. Besides the 350 victims in Thailand are in Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines further 425 people were killed, as was calculated by the United Nations.











