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3 more dead in southern inundation

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stands in a flat-bottomed boat before departing to give out relief bags and survival kits to flood victims stranded in their houses in tambon Mae Chao Yu Hua of Chian Yai district in Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday.  (Government House photo)

Flooding in the southern region has claimed three more lives, raising the total to 24, as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday visited the hardest-hit province, Nakhon Si Thammarat.

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Monday reported that a woman drowned in Phrasaeng district of Surat Thani and two women drowned in Sathing Phra district of Songkhla, on Sunday.

The latest fatalities raised the death toll to 24 in a region that has been pounded by rain brought by the southern monsoon over the Gulf of Thailand since…

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