Thailand's upper parts affected by "Vicente"

BANGKOK, July 25 (TNA) - Although tropical storm Vicente has weakened and become a depression and is about to disperse in northern Vietnam, it has affected Thailand's upper parts with heavy downpours in several areas. In Mae Hong Son province in the Thai North, for instance, heavy rainfalls have caused a landslide isolating a hill tribe village, named Baan Mae Louis, in the Mae Suad locality of Sob Moei district. The landslide covered a one-kilometer-long section of a road from the Mae Ngao National Park to the village, forcing local people to commute through the Mae Ngao River amid its strong currents for the time being. In Phichit province in the Lower Thai North, a flash flood inundated over 5,000 rai or about eight square kilometers of paddy fields, prompting local irrigation officials to open sluice gates in canals in the western part of the Yom River basin to drain the flood and to receive water inflows from adjacent Kamphaeng Phet and Phitsanulok provinces. In Kanchanaburi province in the Thai West, a heavy rainstorm from last night to Wednesday morning caused heavy traffic congestion when parents were bringing their children to schools. (TNA)