Six drown, one missing in pickup plunge
published : 28 Feb 2022 at 12:56
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Waedao Harai
Six people drowned and another was missing after their pickup plunged into the river when a bridge collapsed in storm-hit Narathiwat on Sunday afternoon.
The bridge fell as the ground at one end subsided in tambon Phu Khao Thong.
The four-door pickup was dumped into rapidly flowing water about 5 metres deep, the river swollen by runoff after days of continuous rain.
Local reports said seven people were travelling in the vehicle - three men, two women and two very young girls.
When the water subsided, six were found trapped and drowned in the vehicle and the seventh was missing.
The girls were 2 years old and seven months old.
The prime minister offered his condolences to the families of these who died and ordered local authorities to give them compensation.
Vocabulary
- compensation: money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them - เงินชดเชย
- condolences (noun): sympathy that you feel for somebody when a person in their family or that they know well has died; an expression of this sympathy - การแสดงความเสียใจต่อผู้อื่น
- continuous: happening or existing for a period of time without interruption - ซึ่งติดต่อกัน, ซึ่งต่อเนื่องกัน
- drown: to sink under water and die - จมน้ำ
- plunge: to fall quickly from a high position - ดิ่งลงมาจากท้องฟ้า
- runoff: rainfall that cannot be taken in by the soil and which flows into rivers, lakes or the sea - น้ำหลาก, ปริมาณของเหลวที่ไหลออก
- subside: to sink to a lower level - จมลง
- swollen: larger or fuller than normal - ขยายใหญ่,พองตัว,บวม
