Overview
- The Russian consulate in Phuket confirmed a Russian national who endured nearly a week in a flooded Hat Yai hotel was evacuated and is safe.
- Volunteers identified the evacuee as 50-year-old Evgeny Zaretsky from Novosibirsk and said the hotel had no power, little food or water, and was cut off until waters began to recede.
- The consulate reported no appeals from other Russians and said it had no information about any Russian injuries connected to the disaster.
- Prolonged downpours triggered floods and landslides across Thailand’s Deep South, with Songkhla hardest hit, and Thai experts say the rainfall intensity is unmatched in 300 years of records.
- Songklanagarind Hospital is managing disaster fatalities and using refrigerated containers, with police and hospital figures noting more than 140 bodies, some not confirmed as flood-related.