Thai navy to fight floods

Thai navy to fight floods

BANGKOK (AFP): Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said yesterday that four navy ships and soldiers were being sent to southern Thailand, where flood waters up to two meters deep have killed six people.

The six died and one was missing after they were washed away in the torrents caused by tropical storm Cida, an interior ministry official told AFP.

The ministry said 20 provinces have been hit by floods since the waters began to rise Friday, and another four provinces were suffering from serious flooding with some areas cut off from the outside world.

Konsag Leumanomont, governor of Chumphon, the worst affected province, said helicopters were sending rice, food and water to districts that had been completely cut off for two days.