Mae Hong Son hit by flash floods
Heavy downpours and swelling Pai River on Friday night resulted to hours-long flash flood Saturday morning in Mae Hong Son's Pang Ma Pha and Pai districts.
Following the 5am flooding which receded by 8am in both districts resulting many homes, guesthouses and farmlands' inundation as well as a concrete bridge damage, another flood came at 9am to hit the city area of Pai, said deputy provincial govonor Suwapong Kittipatpaiboon.
Suwapong and others officials were having a meeting in a Pai resort when they got stranded first wave of torrents but managed to wade floodwater out.
Officials were dispatched on rubber boats to take the stranded tourists at 20 Pai riverside homes and resorts to two evacuation centres in the Pai district office's meeting hall and Tambon Mae He Administrative Organisation's office.
In Pang Ma Pha, Ban Tham Lod village headman Yontrachai Sopaworakan said Tambon Tham Lod was also severely affected and a concrete bridge linking between Ban Tham Lod and the district's city area was damaged resulting to many people and 20 tourists being stranded.
