Floodwaters raged through a small stream in Kandal’s Takhmao city on Tuesday as at least seven homes collapsed into the waters and another 70 homes were evacuated.
During his ongoing visit to western provinces to meet people affected by flooding, Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to people to vote for the CPP to protect the country’s peace.
Hun Sen said he would visit the flooded provinces around the Tonle Sap lake starting Friday, and focused his speech on criticism that he was electioneering by doing so.
Severe flooding in Banteay Meanchey has hit 36,000 hectares of rice fields and 3,000 cassava farms — and driven snakes into warm kitchens where they have now bitten 300 residents, authorities said.
Around 40 homes at a community in Russei Keo district — which is slated for relocation — are inundated after heavy rains caused the Tonle Sap to overflow its banks.
Residents along the flood-prone Prek Tnaut river have been alerted as water levels rise and an upstream dam has opened its gates to release pressure, while officials have forecasted a surge in the Mekong over the next 3-5 days.
Typhoon Noru, which is expected to make landfall tomorrow in central Vietnam, will cause flash flooding in northern Cambodia, the weather ministry warned, as other parts of the country are still grappling with incessant rains.
A deputy village chief has come to the aid of families affected by flooding in Banteay Meanchey’s Malai district, as rains lashed the area and inundated crops and homes.
Thousands of families have been evacuated from along the swollen Prek Tnaut river in southern Phnom Penh. As evacuees huddle up in tents set up on roads at the edge of floodwaters, many speak of getting little help even as the flooding gets worse year by year.
Floodwaters are rising on a small group of Chroy Changva residents who say they have suffered two months of unprecedented flooding after officials filled a nearby canal earlier this year.
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