Thai floods spread but Bangkok avoids the worst
China Daily | Updated: 2011-10-17 08:01
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A man sleeps on a bench at a flooded pier on the Chao Praya river in central Bangkok on Sunday. Relief workers reinforced barriers to help defend Thailand's capital, Bangkok, from the country's worst floods in half a century. Damir Sagolj / Reuters |
BANGKOK - Floods in Thailand engulfed another industrial estate on Sunday but the capital, Bangkok, appears for now to have escaped the devastation seen elsewhere in the country despite heavy monsoon rain and water streaming towards it from the north.
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