To prevent accidents, the 4th Army Area troops and the Department of Rural Roads officials are speeding up maintenance and construction of the bypass in Krungching subdistrict, expecting to complete the work in three days.
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said that 321,057 households in the provinces of Surat Thani, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Phatthalung and Songkhla were still struggling with floods.