Residents of Bangkok on a makeshift raft Nov. 3, 2011 Thailand
The Thailand prime minister was heckled by Thursday north of Bangkok residents forced to live in the water for over a week, while a fifth of the city is flooded and now that the crisis is likely to last even weeks.
Yingluck Shinawatra, subject to a very complicated political event when it is in power only since August, visited the people of Don Mueang district, badly hit.
"I do not know if you came here to help or worsen the situation," shouted one woman, while survival kits were not sufficient for it to get it.
"You are here just for fun, not really helping. So do not come back," has also launched an old gentleman in this neighborhood now overwhelmed by a putrid water but people are reluctant to leave.
Since the beginning of historical floods that ravaged the country for three months, the Prime Minister was much criticized for his contradictory statements and floating sensation that sometimes emerges from his government.
"I'm big on heart to see people suffer, while I have to coordinate with so many people to work is stressful," responded the head of government, which has appeared several times in recent weeks helpless marked physically, sometimes in tears.
"Anyway, I will work my best."
The center of the megalopolis of 12 million people to date keeps your feet dry, protected by miles of dikes. But one fifth of the city, mainly in the north and west, is now under water.
"In terms of area, there are about 20% flooded," said Thursday his spokesman Jate Sopitpongstorn AFP.
"In Bangkok, the situation seems to worsen, while water from the north continue to flood more areas," he commented on his side the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a statement.
The authorities have asked the total evacuation of eight districts of the fifty's capital city, and the partial evacuation of four others. More than a million people, according to official figures.
But many of them chose to stay home, despite the dangers of diseases related to dirty water, electric shock and the difficulties of food supplies and drinking water.
"There are 11,000 evacuees living in temporary shelters across the city," said the spokesman.
Floods, the worst in decades killed at least 437 people since three months and affected millions of others, mainly in northern and central regions.
The authorities have so far managed to save the business center of Bangkok and financial giant water masses from the north after a particularly abundant monsoon.
A situation that angered some residents of the neighborhoods most affected where water can exceed one meter in places, claiming to have been sacrificed.
