Thai authorities announced that floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in 19 provinces of the country have killed 22 people and disrupted the lives of about 370,000 people.
The highest number of casualties have been recorded in six northern provinces, and more than three thousand villages are affected by flooding.
The floods have affected 84 districts, 541 subdistricts and 3,036 villages, displacing more than 109,000 households, including 369,724 people, according to Reuters and Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM).
Relief efforts are underway to distribute food, drinking water and essential equipment, and evacuations from flooded areas are continuing using more than 790 relief vehicles.
The United Nations and the Red Cross have urged the Thai government to strengthen flood-resistant infrastructure as economic losses run into billions of baht and disrupt agriculture and transport.
