New houses built for flood victims in Thai South

BANGKOK, February 21 (TNA) - The Royal Thai Air Force has released a caravan of officers to help build new houses for flood victims in Surat Thani Province in the Thai South. Air Force Assistant Commander-in-Chief Air Chief Marshal Chaiyapruk Didyasarin on Tuesday presided over a ceremony to release the caravan of officers who were leaving their base in Bangkok's Don Muang area to Surat Thani’s Phun Phin and Tha Chana Districts. Earlier, the Royal Thai Air Force's relief center was assigned by the Ministry of Defence to rehabilitate areas in the Thai South recently-hit by massive inundations, covering the construction of new houses for local people whose houses were destroyed by the massive floods. To carry out the work, five teams of officers from the Royal Thai Air Force’s Civil Engineering Department are joining forces with two other teams from Wing 7 in Surat Thani and Wing 56 in Songkhla Province. The construction of the houses, based on a blueprint of the Department of Public Works and Town Planning, under the Thai Ministry of Interior, in which 36 square-meter houses, with one bed room and one bathroom each, has been set to be completed and delivered to affected locals by late next month. (TNA)