{"id":109082,"date":"2021-01-11T09:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=109082"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:27:21","slug":"floods-in-southern-thailand-claim-three-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=109082","title":{"rendered":"Floods In Southern Thailand Claim Three Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PATTANI (Thailand), Jan 11 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Severe floods following heavy rain in four provinces in southern Thailand &#8212; Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla &#8212; have claimed three lives to date and affected almost 60,000 families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement Sunday, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department said continuous heavy rain since Jan 4 have affected 58,497 families in 32 districts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo date, three fatalities were reported while another person is still missing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narathiwat is the worst-hit province, with 448 villages and 25,211 families affected, followed by Yala (15,229 families), Pattani (10,508) and Songkhla (7,549).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Pattani, several low-lying areas were flooded following the high-tide phenomenon and water released from the Bang Lang Dam in Yala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A check by Bernama found several areas in Pattani were inundated and the authorities are intensifying efforts to pump out the stagnated floodwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, local authorities have announced the release of water from the Bang Lang Dam in order to retain a safe water level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATTANI (Thailand), Jan 11 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Severe floods following heavy rain in four provinces in southern Thailand &#8212; Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and Songkhla &#8212; have claimed three lives to date and affected almost 60,000 families. In a statement Sunday, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department said continuous heavy rain since Jan 4 have affected 58,497 families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":109083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,322],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}