Girl, 5, drowns in Bang Saphan flash flood
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A five-year-old girl drowned when she was swept away by a flash flood in Bang Saphan district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province on Tuesday.
The girl was one of eight people in a van that was hit by a heavy flooding as they returned to Nakhon Si Thammarat from a Buddhist ordination ceremony in Suphan Buri.
The eight occupants of the van attempted to reach safety by climbing onto the roof of the vehicle but the girl slipped from her mother’s grasp and fell into the water. Authorities found her body on Tuesday morning.
