Thursday, October 1, 2009

Several provinces in Thailand hit by Ketsana depression

Xinhua

Typhoon Ketsana, which weakened Wednesday to be a tropical depression, has affected several provinces in Thailand.

The tropical depression started attacking a northeastern province of U-bon Rat-cha-tha-ni Wednesday morning, according to the Thai Meteorological Department.

In Chai-ya-poom, another province in the Northeast, local people have been instructed to closely monitor a warning announcement from involved authorities after three dams there broke after the heavy raining, Thai News Agency reported.

In the city of Chai-ya-poom, the flood due to the tropical depression, damaged agricultural areas and state buildings, while many roads had been flooded.


In beach resort town Pattaya in an eastern province of Chon-bu-ri, nine boats for a tourism service, which were parking on the Pattaya Gulf, were sunken due to an over-two-meter-height wave.

The high wave also wiped some of the boats to hit restaurants and pubs, which were built up off the seashore of the Pattaya Gulf.

Moreover, in a southern province of Sa-tool, locating along the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea, fishermen there could not work due to the strong wind and high wave as the fishermen have been in troubled of foods.

State buildings and almost 100 houses along the coastal areas have been damaged by the strong wind and heavy rain.

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