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Saturday, October 29, 2011

US military helicopters to survey deadly Thai flooding

Bangkok resident wade through the flooded streets of the capital. Photo: 28 October 2011
Bangkok residents are continuing mass exodus from the capital

The Thai authorities accept asked US aggressive helicopters to analysis flooding, which has hit the arctic and is now aggressive the basic Bangkok.

Two Seahawk helicopters aboard the USS Mustin warship would conduct "aerial reconnaissance", the Pentagon said.The warship is docked at the anchorage of Laem Chabang, just south of Bangkok.Thai admiral say top tides due on Saturday and the breeze of run-off baptize from inundated axial plains could could cause added calamity in the capital.City association are continuing accumulation exodus, afterwards the authorities apprenticed them to leave Bangkok.

Heavy cloudburst rains accept been causing calamity in Thailand back July. More than 370 humans accept been dead and swathes of the country affected.

Thai U-turnJohn Kirby, the captain of the USS Mustin, said Thailand had asked the warship to prolong its break at the anchorage for up to six days.
A sailor from the USS Mustin (centre) hands food aid to local Thai residents
The USS Mustin crew members have been handing food aid to the local Thai community

"The Thai government has asked to accept it stick about to advice out," he told reporters on Friday.

The boner docked at Laem Chabang a few canicule ago for what accepted to be a week-long sting.

The Thai government had initially said it did not crave abetment from the US fleet with flood abatement efforts.

Meanwhile, baptize levels in Bangkok's Chao Phraya River river hit a new top - 2.47 metres aloft sea akin - as association connected to leave the basic advanced of accessible flooding.

Authorities abhorrence that the river, which bisects Bangkok, could access its banks if baptize levels acceleration because of almighty top melancholia tides over the weekend.

Flood amnion are continuing to edge into arctic districts of Bangkok but the centre charcoal mostly dry.

Roads in and about the basic remained awash as association acclimated a five-day anniversary to leave the city.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she was assessing a angle to dig channels into some anchorage in eastern Bangkok to advice baptize cesspool through to the sea.

On Friday, the Bank of Thailand bargain its advance anticipation for the accepted banking year to 2.6%, down from an antecedent bump of 4.1% growth.
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