200 policemen deployed to keep security at Klong Sam Wa sluice gate
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Over 200 crowd-control policemen were deployed to keep security at the Klong Sam Wa sluice gate while Bangkok administration workers were repairing the gate Wednesday morning.
Angry residents of the Klong Sam Wa district has dug up a waterway beside the gate to try to reduce floodwater from their area.
The side waterway was about 50 centimetres-wide and Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said the waterway had to be fixed or else the water could overflow the Saen Saeb Canal to flood inner Bangkok.
In the morning, the water level north of the sluice gate was about 1.9 metres high and the level at the south of the gate was about 1.2 metres high.
The Nation
