The BBC’s Rachel Harvey looks at how people are helping to shore up flood defences around the industrial estate
One of Thailand’s oldest and largest industrial estates has been evacuated after flood waters breached its recently-fortified defences.
It comes as officials say most of Bangkok appears to have escaped the flooding, although some parts of the capital are still under threat.
Water began seeping into Navanakorn industrial estate in Pathum Thani, 45km (30 miles) from Bangkok, on Monday.
Navanakorn houses some 250 factories, employing up to 200,000 people.
As many as 1,000 soldiers and factory workers worked over the weekend, filling sandbags, reinforcing dykes and repairing holes.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday had expressed optimism that Navanakorn would be spared, but admitted on Monday their efforts had failed.
“I feel so sorry that water has entered because we’ve been trying to prevent the industrial estate from flooding for quite a while,” she was quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying.
She said the barriers had been breached by a combination of heavy rain over the weekend, high tide levels as well as large amounts of water running-off from the flood-hit north of the country.
Navanakorn is not the only industrial estate to have been affected. Five industrial estates in the badly-flooded province of Ayutthaya have been damaged, including Factory Land, which is reported to be under 1.5m (5ft) of floodwater.
Full Story : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15331914
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