School Roof Collapses During Storm, Killing 7 People
Seven people were killed and 18 others were injured when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a dome roof a school’s multi-use building to collapse in Phichit province.
Seven people were killed and 18 others were injured when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a dome roof a school’s multi-use building to collapse in Phichit province.
Kasikorn Research Center estimated the damage of the first crop of rice caused by flooding at 2.9-3.1 billion baht.
Storm Noru weakened to a depression in Chaturaphak Phiman district of Roi Et and was moving northwestwards while the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) reinforced its embankments
Like authorities in other provinces, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has installed pumps in flood-prone areas and prepared 2.5 million sandbags to cope with the imminent impacts of Storm Noru.
The management of Airports of Thailand blamed a rainstorm for the collapse of a terminal at Don Mueang airport yesterday.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has warned of run-offs and flash floods in four southern provinces from March 20 to 22.
Summer storms injured two people and damaged 14 houses in Phetchabun province and tore down a building that housed a big reclining Buddha image in Buri Ram.
Tropical Storm Kompasu will arrive in Thailand on Oct 14 and will bring more rains than Storm Lionrock did, said Nattapon Nattasomboon, director-general of the Meteorological Department.
A depression became Tropical Storm Lionrock in South China Sea and will land in upper Vietnam on Oct 10-11, the Meteorological Department reported.
Local officials were helping more than 100 families whose houses were damaged by summer storms in Mae Hong Son and Nakhon Ratchasima provinces.
A tour boat capsized in the Mekong River. Two passengers were missing and four others survived on the Lao side.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned people to follow up the movements of incoming storms and suspend trips at this moment to protect themselves.