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Record floods in southern Thailand, including Hat Yai’s heaviest rainfall in 300 years, have killed 33 people and displaced millions, prompting massive military-led relief efforts.
People were seen driving through streets inundated with water in Na Thawi on Thursday, November 27, as the death toll from flooding in Thailand rose to 33.Footage from Nathawee Provincial Police, Songkhla Province,
The military sent troops, helicopters and boats to rescue stranded people. At least 33 people have been killed and more than two million displaced over the past week.
Deep in Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest, conservationists use GPS collars to understand the eating habits, territory of the country’s last remaining Indochinese tigers.
NOCC secretary-general says that the decision was "about safety", declining to say whether it was related to the border dispute.
Thailand was preparing on Tuesday to send an aircraft carrier with relief supplies and medical teams to its south, where more heavy rain intensified the worst floods in years, which have killed 13 people and hobbled rescue and evacuation efforts.
The pachyderms were daubed in paint to mimic albino elephants considered auspicious. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.