Evacuees to be relocated
The first 1,200 flood evacuees are set to be relocated from the government Flood Relief Operations Centre in the Don Mueang airport compound to a centre in Chon Buri, among four shelters or back to their home provinces, out of a total of 4,225 evacuees.
The other destination shelters are in Nakhon Pathom, Samut Sakhon and the Ratchamangala stadium in Hua Mark area. Around 100 registered to be relocated to Nakhon Pathom and Samut Sakhon. The rest of them are given the next few days to decide where to go, said Ratchanee Sudjit, a senior relief official.
The relocation of relief supplies in Terminal 1 to the National Stadium is beyond schedule after there are fewer volunteers turning up to help transport them, while Terminal 2 and a Vibhavadi Rangsit highway section in front of the airport are under high floodwater.
More than 11,000 inmates from two prisons located near Chao Phaya river, Bang Khwang maximum security prison and Nonthaburi prison, are set to be relocated to three prison outside Bangkok, said Corrections Department director-general Suchart Wonganantchai.
Of all, 4,567 are detained at the Bang Khwang prison and other 6,500 at the Nonthaburi prison. All of them are those imprisoned following final verdicts and time-consuming relocation of prisoners is ordered, because they must be shackled during travel under prison regulations while security must be tight, Suchart said.
A large number of them, mostly those serving lengthy terms, were taken yesterday from the Bang Khwang prison on 17 buses to the Khao Bin prison in Ratchaburi, amidst heavy security. The two other prisons are in Nakhon Ratchasima and Phitsanulok.
