Floods Cut Roads, Inundate Nine Sub-Districts in Prachinburi
Severe flooding in Prachinburi Province has cut off all roads and submerged nine sub‑districts, with Ban Saeng district the worst affected. Authorities are moving relief supplies by train and boat, setting up shelters and kitchens for evacuees, while warning that water levels are still rising and urging residents to evacuate for safety.
On October 3, 2069, Prachinburi Province Deputy Governor Chanathip Kokmani reported that while several districts are showing improvement, Ban Saeng remains the hardest hit, with floodwaters cutting all roads and submerging nine sub-districts. He noted that Nadie district is almost back to normal, Kabin Buri’s waters have receded enough to reopen traffic, but Prachantakham and Sri Maha Pho districts still have deep standing water preventing some residents from returning home. In Prachantakham’s Dong Chaiman village, the area has become an island accessible only by boat; the province has set up a kitchen at the Suwan Wittaya School field hospital and is delivering three meals a day by boat to villagers who refuse to leave their homes, while public health teams monitor for water‑borne illnesses such as skin rashes and foot rot. Chanathip explained that Ban Saeng acts as a catchment basin before water flows to Chachoengsao Province, and the water level continues to rise, especially at the Bang Tan Sub‑district municipality shelter at Sri Rak School where it is 50 cm above the school grounds, requiring earthen dikes. District chief Stetwuthi Wonglewuthi said the current flooding surpasses the 2011 and 2016 events, caused by the confluence of the Prachinburi River and the Nakhon Nayok River at Bang Tan, compounded by overflow into the Bang Phluang fields, inundating all 88 villages in Ban Saeng’s nine sub‑districts, even submerging the district office to knee‑depth. He added that all roads are impassable, necessitating military high‑lift trucks, rescue vehicles and boats for movement, with 14 shelters housing over 700 evacuees—about 80‑90 % of those affected—but urged the remaining 10 % to relocate for safety. Meanwhile, Prachinburi Provincial Administrative Organization President Krit Kasamphan announced a revised relief plan, loading aid onto a railway freight car to the Nong Nam Khao station in Ban Saeng, from where rescue teams will transfer supplies by high‑lift trucks and boats to shelters such as Sri Rak and Bang Toey, guaranteeing no one will go hungry.
