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NAN : One villager drowned and two others were reported missing after heavy rain caused flooding in two tambons in Tha Wang Pha district on Friday, local authorities said yesterday. The body of Amporn Pano, 60, was found, while On Inthiwong, 61, and Som Chaisalee, 64, were still missing after flash floods ravaged tambon Sriphum and Tanchum.
About 45 houses, two local roads, three weirs and a rice mill were damaged, while 10 people were injured. Tambon Tanchum was the hardest-hit and a lack of mobile phone signals in the area hampered relief work.
Provincial disaster officials, local military and border patrol units handed out flood relief kits to affected villagers and carried out a clean-up operation.
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Nan governor Sompong Anuyuthapong cautioned people living in flood-risk areas and mountains against any possible run-offs due to poor weather conditions.
He added that the emergency response team was on standby around the clock.
Prat Boonyawongwirote, the Public Health Ministry's permanent secretary, ordered Nan health officials to send mobile medical units to flood-hit areas to attend to villagers affected by the flooding.
So far, three mobile medical teams and two water-borne disease control units have been sent to treat people affected by the flooding, distributing 2,000 kits of common household medicine, 100 gumboots and medical items.
Meanwhile, Mae Man reservoir in Phrae's Sung Men district faced a major crisis with the lowest levels of water in a decade with only 100,000 cubic metres left, despite having a capacity of up to 18 million cubic metres, Phrae deputy governor Somchai Hathaiyatanti said.
As a result, 15,000 rai of farmland in four tambons of Sung Men district were facing water shortages for agricultural purposes.
He said more needs to be done to counter the drought within a month, otherwise the farmland would be seriously damaged.
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