Friday, October 28, 2011

Bangkok floods affect 220 million people, killed 377 people

曼谷洪水影响220万人,死亡377人.A resident pulls her belongings as she wades through her flooded neighbourhood in Thon Buri outside Bangkok October 28, 2011. Thailand's worst flooding in half a century, caused in part by unusually heavy monsoon rain, has killed 377 people since mid-July and disrupted the lives of nearly 2.2 million, until now mostly in the north and central provinces. 
曼谷洪水影响220万人,死亡377人.A One-Two-GO Airlines plane is seen parked on a flooded tarmac at Don Muang airport in Bangkok October 28, 2011. Traffic clogged roads out of the Thai capital Friday as tens of thousands of people fled ahead of a high tide expected to worsen floods that have inundated factories and prompted foreign governments to warn their citizens to stay away.  
曼谷洪水影响220万人,死亡377人.A woman evacuated from areas affected by floods sleeps among tents at Don Muang airport in Bangkok October 28, 2011.  
曼谷洪水影响220万人,死亡377人.Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets the media as she arrives at the Flood Relief Operation Centre (FROC) in Bangkok October 28, 2011. In the early days of Thailand's devastating floods, the prime minister was seen knee-deep in muddy waters in wading boots, greeting evacuated villagers, surrounded by clicking cameras and appearing to take charge. Fast-forward a month, as the worst floods in half a century close in on inner-city Bangkok, Yingluck's three-month-old government is under fire for badly managing the crisis -- from shoddy policy coordination to poor communication and conflicts with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.