Fine Arts officials decline evacuation to safeguard Ayutthaya treasures
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Some of approximately 100 officials from the Region 3 Fine Arts Office who were marooned with a group of local residents in flooded Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Historical Park yesterday said they would stay to watch over the park's ancient artefacts.
Fine Arts Department chief Somsuda Leyavanija said the stranded officials guarding the park, along with the Chawsamphraya National Museum and Chantharakasem National Museum, had insisted on staying because they were worried artefacts might be lost. The department had provided some supplies, but Somsuda urged the provincial governor to assist by sending them more drinking water and food.
A team of rescue workers from Chon Buri equipped with 40 Jetskis based at a coordina?tion centre at Wang Noi Shell Gas Station was helping to transport items into the park and assist victims requesting evacuation to shelters.
The department is collecting donations to help repair flood-damaged ancient sites |in the province via Krung Thai Bank’s Rajdamnoen branch, bank account number 081-0-09603-6.
