Southern Thailand’s Hat Yai city centre spared from floods

Southern Thailand’s Hat Yai city centre spared from floods

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PUBLISHED : 8 Dec 2024 at 15: 48

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A road on the outskirts of Hat Yai city in the southern Thai province of Songkhla is seen flooded after two major canals overflowed last month. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)

SONGKHLA: Hat Yai’s central business district was mostly spared from the floods which caused over four billion baht of damage across the province, though businesses have yet to calculate the losses caused by trade disruptions from the disaster, says Songkhla’s chamber of commerce.

Songpol Chansiriwathanathamrong, president of the province’s chamber of commerce, said the floods that hit the South affected over 540,000 people across 533 villages in the province’s 16 districts.

He said while the chamber estimated property damage from the floods to be over four billion baht, losses from the temporary shutdown of bus
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