AlHijjah 9, 1432, Nov 5, 2011, SPA -- Thai authorities erected a 6-kilometre barricade of huge sandbags in the hope of saving inner Bangkok from floods, but the levee didn't stop water from creeping towards the centre of the city Saturday, according to dpa. The barricade of "big bags," weighing 2.5 tons each, was completed Friday night, running along a railway track from a sluice gate in the northern part of the capital, the Bangkok Post reported. The levee would eventually allow authorities to pump some of the floodwater to the western and eastern suburbs, lowering the threat of a deluge in the inner city from the runoff flooding northern Bangkok. The floodwaters swamped the Lat Prao district well inside the city on Friday. By Saturday morning, flooding threatened subway stations near a major weekend market, the Bangkok Post online reported. The water was reportedly heading towards the Saphan Khwai district in inner Bangkok. The oversize bags laid along the railway are too big for irate communities, whose neighbourhoods will be flooded for weeks while inner Bangkok stays dry, to tear down. "I want to tell the public honestly that we have to endure this condition for a while," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said.
