'Once in 300 Years' Rain Hits Thailand's Hat Yai

The death toll from floods in southern Thailand rose to 33, a senior government official said on Wednesday (November 26). The causes of death included landslides and electrocution. In Thailand's hardest-hit city of Hat Yai, a public health official said helicopters would deliver food and ferry out patients after the first floor of the main government hospital treating 600 patients, some 50 in intensive care, was inundated. The disaster also swept through nine provinces in southern Thailand, as well as eight states in neighbouring Malaysia, swamping hundreds of kilometres of land for the second successive year and prompting the evacuation of nearly 45,000 people in both countries. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/ #thailand #hatyai #flooding