Thailand Floods: Aid Agencies Warn of Humanitarian Crisis in Bangkok BY PROF. REZA SALAMI

MUSIC BY: MAJEED ENTEZAMI, PERSIAN MUSICIAN
Thailand floods: aid agencies warn of humanitarian crisis in Bangkok
Aid agencies warned of a possible humanitarian crisis in areas of the Thai capital heavily inundated with flood waters after temporary dykes holding back the massive deluge in the main Chao Phraya River failed in several places.
Tens of thousands of residents living in eight of Bangkok's 50 districts have been living in flood water up to 5ft deep for days, giving rise to fears of waterborne communicable diseases and a diarrhoea epidemic. In the Bangkok Noi district, across the Chao Phraya from key tourist attractions like the largely unscathed Grand Palace, the Thai Navy was directing relief boats along what is normally a four lane highway. But the Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra that things would improve on Monday as high tides backing up flood waters flowing from the north to the Gulf of Thailand would recede. Three months of exceptionally heavy monsoon rains have left 381 dead and affected 2.2 million people. Bangkok's governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said the Chao Phraya had reached another record level of 8.3ft above sea-level on Sunday, slightly above the sandbag walls lining the river. The temporary dykes built up by 50,000 troops and an army of volunteers have largely held under the weight of the deluge. Bangkok residents built sandbag embankments around homes, parked cars three-deep on every overpass, and stripped supermarket shelves in panic buying.

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• Thailand Floods
• Humanitarian Crises
• Bangkok
• 2.2 Million People affected
• Urgent support

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