AlQa'dah 22, 1432, Oct 20, 2011, SPAFloods will likely hit northern and eastern Bangkok late Friday, dpa quoted Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra as saying. But the city was not yet in crisis and there was no need to declare more at-risk zones than the seven announced Wednesday, he told the media Thursday. Floodwaters arrived on the northern outskirts of the capital Wednesday, closing roads and a mall and causing traffic chaos as commuters tried to get home. Seven districts in the north and east of greater Bangkok were under threat of flooding, Sukhumbhand said, adding that people should move their belongings to higher ground because floodwaters could overflow temporary dykes. Those seven districts are on the outer northern and eastern borders of Bangkok province and the city centre remains dry and government officials said they remained confident it would not be flooded. The floods have left a path of destruction from the north of the country to the outskirts of Bangkok over the past two months, leaving 320 dead, three missing and affecting 2.4 million people, according to the National Disaster Prevention Center. Twenty-eight provinces are currently affected by the floods but so far Bangkok province is not one of them. More than 40 of Thailand's 78 provinces have suffered damage, but the water has run off from the northern region.
