Anger broke out in Bangkok, the foreigners turned into dikes

Anger erupted along a dike protecting Bangkok's capital from a record flood when residents were angry with security forces to demand a floodgate that flooded their houses.

>>>Video: Drain flood at Klong Sam outlet

A man sleeps on a flooded bus stop in Bangkok.

Tensions occur at the Klong Sam flood outlet in northeast Bangkok. Worried about the rising water level, people have suggested the form of expanding the discharge gate. When officials refused, today they used hammers and hoes to break a dike around the outlet to allow water to escape and push the security forces that prevented them from doing so.

Previous officials warned that the expansion of Klong Sam outlet could threaten an industrial zone downstream and increase the water level of a main canal leading to Bangkok's capital.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said the government had agreed to extend the outlet, but asked officials to ensure that the larger flow did not affect other places.

An angry man with police near Klong Sam discharge gate.

The case has shown increasing anger in some of the neighborhoods that have been sacrificed to keep the central Bangkok area dry.

The latest development occurred when Ms. Yingluck said she hoped that the floodwaters retreated through Bangkok now that the tide was peaking and falling. Although much of the inner city is still dry, flooding is still serious in residential areas to the north and west, where water levels are coming from Thailand's most severe flood in more than half a century. still increasing.

Floods in Bangkok's northern area look from above.

The higher tides normally pouring from the Gulf of Thailand into the Chao Phraya River in recent days have hampered efforts to protect Bangkok. Water from the north has put great pressure on pumps, sand flood protection dikes and dykes to protect Bangkok, although these systems are basically still intact.

'If the country does not rise further, the current water flow may not cause serious flooding in Bangkok,' the Thai Prime Minister said.

A poll showed that 75% of Bangkok people are stressed by floods.

Although it is good news for central Bangkok but not much for people in 15 counties currently flooded in the total of 50 districts of Bangkok.

While the government has focused on protecting the capital in recent days, there have been complaints that provinces in the north of the capital, some provinces that have been inundated for weeks or months, are forgotten.
Prime Minister Yingluck answered these concerns in an article on her Facebook page.

Bangkok's Don Muang Airport was deeply flooded.

'The government is concerned about every citizen who has been exposed to flooding, as well as those who are facing prolonged floods ,' she said.

Floods, which began in late July due to unusual rainy seasons and tropical storms, have claimed 381 lives and so far affected more than a third of the country's provinces.

Floods have destroyed millions of hectares of crops and shut down thousands of factories.