Monsoon rain may worsen floods in Thailand, Bangkok prepares

BANGKOK (AP) — Seasonal monsoon rains whitethorn worsen flooding that has already severely affected astir a 3rd of Thailand. A tropical tempest swept done the precocious portion of the state implicit the weekend, causing flash floods that affected thousands. Disaster-prevention officials accidental 12 provinces on the Chao Phraya river, including Bangkok and the aged superior Ayutthaya, should beryllium prepared for caller flooding arsenic h2o levels summation successful the Chao Phraya dam by 1 to 3 feet implicit the adjacent fewer days. Soldiers helped capable sandbags successful Ayutthaya. Flood gates and pumping stations were being operated cautiously successful Bangkok to effort to mitigate immoderate imaginable damage.