Floods may lead to evacuation of 13,000 families

Preparations are in place to evacuate some 13,000 people if flooding worsens in Purst province after the Pursat River burst its banks on Monday nights leading to the evacuation of 27 families in Kandieng district. ... Pursat provincial governor Khoy Sokha said that floodwater, which was caused by heavy rainfall from Tropical Depression Gaemi, was about to reach Veal Veng district. ... Ratanakkiri province's Lumphat district has also been affected by flooding, with the water reaching up to 2 meters deep in some places, provincial governor Pao Ham Phan said, adding that so far nobody had been evacuated. ...

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