(6 Oct 2024)
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Chiang Mai, Thailand – 06 October 2024
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Thai relief workers brought in some serious muscle on Sunday to help them reach residents cut off by severe flooding in the north of the country.
Two elephants helped support a team of volunteers to reach a community in Saraphi district, about 20 kilometres outside the city of Chiang Mai.
The towering beasts strode seemingly untroubled through water levels that were waist deep for humans.
The floods were caused by heavy monsoon rainfall causing the River Ping, that runs through Chiang Mai, to overflow its banks.
Areas popular with tourists, such as the city’s Night Bazaar and Tha Pae Gate, were under as much as a meter (3 1/3 feet) of water.
Electricity was cut off in some neighbourhoods for safety reasons, further complicating the situation.
Elsewhere, provinces in central Thailand were bracing for flooding of their own after the Irrigation Department announced it was releasing water from a major dam that would affect water levels downstream.
AP video by Wason Wanichakorn
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