Flood victims threaten to sue officials over ‘late’ warning
Victims of the recent flooding in Prachuap Khiri Khan province have pledged to sue the Royal Irrigation Department and provincial authorities for failing to issue an early warning. They believe that dereliction of duty by the officials caused deaths and property damage that could have been prevented. Arkom Somwang, 41, and his wife lost their five-year-old daughter in the raging floodwaters that suddenly swept into Phetkasem Road in the province on January 9. “The floodwaters quickly swamped the road, hurled the van they were riding in and swept away their daughter,” Nadthasiri Bergman, a legal officer at the Cross-Cultural Foundation, said on February 15.
