BANGKOK FLOODS: Science and Technology Minister’s wrong call

The Minister later said that the alert was for single-story dwellings in close vicinity of the breach.

Residents in the Thai capital Bangkok and surrounding northern suburbs were almost sent into a state of panic after government officials issued an evacuation alert that later turned out to be false. Alarm was raised when the country’s Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi issued an evacuation alert for residents in the north of the [...]

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