BANGKOK: Heavy rains from tropical depressive disorders Mulan caused expensive floods on Saturday (Aug 13), with towns at the Thai-Myanmar border submerged immediately after rising water degrees breached an earthen dam in Myanmar’s Shan state, city media reported.
The overflow water, which had mostly receded with Sunday, inundated even more than 2, 000 homeowners in Mae Claime township in Thailand’s northern Chiang Reflet province as well as Myanmar’s Tachilek border area, local media Thai PBS reported.
A Thai public said an earthen dam located 37km north of the edge was breached provided Friday causing seas of the Sai river to rise rapidly in addition to triggering the a water surge.
“The dike along the river that will used to keep water levels under control was breached and liquid overflowed into the pavements and people’s properties, ” Narongphol Kid-arn, the mayor with Mae Sai, says.
“In selected parts, the water was at waist and change levels, ” he or she said.
Thailänder PBS footage displays relief personnel sorting through flooded pavement to distribute foodstuff to people stranded into their homes in Mae Sai. There were zero reports of casualties.
Separately, Thailand’s National Water Demand Centre on Saturday supplied a warning of which heavy rain during Laos could cause normal water levels in the Mekong River to rise simply by up to 2m amongst Aug 14 to 18.