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OCHA Regional Office for Asia Pacific : Flooding in October 2006 Issued: 6 November 2006

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SINGBURI Nakhon Ratchasima H SI SAKET A N SUPHANBURI ANG SURIN I THONG PHRA NAKHON NAKHON SI AYUDHYA NAYOK NAKHON PATHUM THANI PATHOM PHACHINBURI SA KAEO Nonthaburi RATCHABURI Situation Overview: 6 November 2006 SAMUT CHACHOENGSAO Bangkok PRAKARN Chon Buri SAMUT SAMUT I SAKHON R Thailand is experiencing serious flooding as a result of low SONGKHAM U C B N H O A pressure cells passing through the North, Northeast and Central H N C I T TCHABUR H Plain during August and September, a tropical depression on 24- PHE A B 25 September and the impact of the former-Typhoon “Xangsane” Rayong U R I as it weakened CintAo Ma dBeOpreDssiIoAn over the country in the first T R A week of October. D PRACHUAP KHILIKHAN Trat A total of 4,220,329 people (1,191,934 households) in 388 Prachuap Khiri Khan districts, 32 sub-districts in 47 in the North, Central Plain, East and Northeast and South have been affected by the low pressures and depressions.

A total of 211 people have been killed as of 6 November. Damages reported to date include 54 houses destroyed, 10,336 G u l f o f T h a i l a n d houses partially destroyed, 6,978 roads and 479 bridges N

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R Cost of damages (government structures such as roads and bridges) from initial surveys is estimated at Bt6,270,626,360 (US$165.02 million). This figure does not include damages to farmland, houses and personal belongings. Thani As of to date, 15 provinces are still submerged – Phitsanulok,

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H Buri, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, , Bangkok. P K R A B I The Bank of Thailand (BOT) estimated that the damage caused by this year’s floods will be more than Bt20 billion (US$526.316 P T H Phuket R A million) and that the flood impact on the country’s economy is A T N T G H A moderate. It is expected that the flood will setback GDP growth L U N in 2006 by around 0.09 per cent. G

S S BOT said the damage figure is the current estimate and not A O Pattani T N U G stable yet. The actual total value of the damage, which can be N KH United Nations Office for the Coordination LA PATTAYNaI la assessed only after the flood subsides, can be higher and the of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Regional Narathiwat N increase will have an impact on next year’s GDP. The Bank’s A Office for Asia Pacific (ROAP) R A A Monetary Policy Committee will closely monitor and assess the T Executive Suite, 2nd Floor, UNCC L H

A I Building, Rajdamnern Nok Ave, Bangkok Y W flood impact on the Thai economy. A 10200, Thailand T Sources: Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Datum: WGS84 (DDPM) and Bank of Thailand Map data source: UN Cartographic Section, Global Discovery

The names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Map Ref: OCHA_THA_Flooding_v2_061106