Driver drowns as flash flood sweeps pickup off Krabi road

Police said Kanchana Chukham, 40, was driving home from Mueang Krabi at about 8.30am and was a kilometre from her house in Tambon Phru Diew in Khao Phanom when the tragedy occurred.
They said the floodwater was 80 centimetres deep along a 100-metre stretch of the road and flowing sideways across it in a strong current.
The pickup was flipped over and wedged between palm trees 50 metres from the roadway.
Rescue workers aided by about 50 passers-by used rope to tow the truck back to the roadway. Kanchana’s body was still inside.
She was the wife of Pongsak Chukham, a member of the Phru Diew Tambon Council.
District chief Aroon Sing-in said flash flooding had damaged 10 houses in Moo 1 village and 15 more in Moo 4, both in the same tambon.