Floods in Southeast Asia claim more than 300 lives in Thailand and Indonesia
The Floodsthat hit Southeast Asia hard on Friday, with at least 145 people killed in Thailand and 174 in Indonesia.
The same scenes are repeated in Indonesiaand neighboring Malaysia and Thailand, between cities flooded with water, residents besieged by floods, and landslides caused by heavy rains that have been falling for days.
Hundreds of deaths
In Thailand, government spokesman Siriyapong Angkasakulkiat said on Friday afternoon that "The total number of deaths in the southern governorates rose to 145"
The south was the most affected, as residents of Hat Yai were forced to cling to the rooftops of houses waiting to be rescued by boats.
A representative of a local hospital said on Friday that more than a hundred people had died in Songkhla alone, and that the main morgue was no longer able to receive more dead.
The government announced on Friday the suspension of the duties of the head of the Hat Yai region, accusing him of failing to deal with the floods.
On the island of Sumatra, western Indonesia, floods caused Soilslides killed at least 174 people and left ten others missing, according to a new toll.
North Sumatra police spokesman, Phiri Walintokan, said "Our priority remains evacuation and assistance. We hope the weather improves so we can send a helicopter to the site"At a time when many roads were cut off.
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