Substantial flooding due to heavy rain last night and early this morning swamped the holiday resort of Phuket, prompting police to shut down several of its main roads.
Streets across the town became untraversable, leading to police-imposed road closures. The water levels in Bang Yai Canal, the canal that transits through the city providing a key drainage channel into the sea, have risen to potentially hazardous levels. Flooding was witnessed in several locations, with Tha Kraeng Road, the location of the provincial government building, among those affected, alongside the intersection of Tha Kraeng Road and Chao Fa East Road.
Similarly, the popular tourist area of Patong was heavily flooded, particularly around the vicinity of the local police station and its surrounding areas. Here, a longstanding…
