A near-death moment when a mountain collapsed while villagers in Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai Province were helping to scoop up mud and make a drainage channel on the road during flooding. They ran for their lives and miraculously survived.
A landslide occurred while villagers of Doi Laem, Mae Ai District, Chiang Mai Province, were helping to scoop up mud and make drainage ditches. Everyone ran for their lives and miraculously survived.
After the incident, a survey of the surrounding area found that one motorcycle was damaged. A female survivor said that the village headman on the other side of the road pushed her out of the dirt and survived. However, the village headman was buried under the mud and swept away into the mud.
While the aerial view shows the damage to the road from Ban Doi Laem, with mud covering it and some parts of the road missing. The village headman mobilized the villagers to help open the drainage channels on the road that had been blocked by the landslide using shovels or other availa
ble equipment, with 10 people helping to drain the water on the road. After the rain stopped, it was found that the mountain soil had slid down in several places, and the mud that came with the flash flood flowed down the high mountain ridges to the lowlands at least 50 meters high. Even though the flood level had dropped below the bank, there was still flooding in the lowlands. People from some villages in Mae Ai District were still trapped in their homes.
Phra Khru Prichaphiwat, the abbot of Wat Thung Luang, Thung Luang Subdistrict, Phrao District, Chiang Mai Province, continues to provide assistance to villagers in Mae Ai District who have been affected by the floods, especially at Ban Wang Phai, Tha Ton Subdistrict, where the water level is still high and 130 people are still trapped in their homes. Some people have climbed up to their houses on the roofs to wait for help. The abbot led the Phrao Wang Hin rescue team, along with the Mae Ai District Administration, the Wiang Malika rescue team, the Subdis
trict Administrative Organization, and the local municipality to distribute food and drinking water to 130 monks and villagers of Wang Phai to alleviate their initial suffering.
Source: Thai News Agency