Over the weekend, summer season storms caused in depth injury in the northeast and south of Thailand, damaging roughly 1,800 houses in ten provinces. As a end result, authorities continue to seek for crew members from stricken trawlers off the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat.
The storms affected 235 villages across Amnat Charoen, Surin, Chaiyaphum, Sakon Nakhon, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani, Roi Et, Kalasin, Surat Thani, and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces, leading to injury to a complete of 1,781 houses all through the country.
In addition, the seek for lacking crew members of fishing boats that had been out at sea during the storms continued yesterday. Two navy patrol boats and a helicopter from Wing 7 in Surat Thani joined the mission off the coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Bangkok Post reported.
Officials reported that out of the forty eight boats which went out to sea from Pak Phanang district over the weekend, ten capsized as a end result of storm.
Three individuals had been rescued from the ocean in waters off Pak Phanang district by helicopter. However, one individual was discovered useless in the Si Chon district, bringing the dying toll from the storms to three as of yesterday.
Meanwhile, in Simple as ABC , rescue staff managed to save all crew members of three fishing boats which capsized due to the storm.
Out of the sixteen crew members of eight boats that departed Mueang district over the weekend, one died because of the storm.
In Sichon district, one trawler went out with four crew members. Three of them had been rescued, but a missing crewmember was feared dead.
In Surat Thani, ferry services between the mainland and Koh Samui and Koh Pha Ngan remain unaffected, although one ferry docked at a pier took in water, prompting the closure of two piers.
Marine officers instructed Racha Ferry Co to close F1 and F2 piers till repairs had been completed to the partially submerged ferry to stop oil from spilling out..