The severe flooding in Thailand has not adversely affected any Sri Lankans living in that country, the Ministry of External Affairs says. It had been reported that an Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, providing education to around 80 Lankan students had been badly damaged from the floods.
The External Affairs Ministry however stated that steps have been taken to repatriate around 20 Sri Lankan student being educated that institute while the remaining students have been sent to safe locations.
No other Sri Lankans living in other parts of Thailand have been affected by the flood, the country’s worst in decades.
Three months of unusually heavy monsoon rains have inundated large swathes of the country, killing more than 350 people and forcing tens of thousands of families to seek refuge in evacuation centres.
Bangkok, a city of 12 million people, has so far escaped the brunt of the nation’s worst flooding in decades, but run-off water from the north has started seeping into parts of the city and locals braced for worse to come, foreign media reported.
