‘Flood after flood’ hits Thailand and Vietnam, with Malaysia next in line
Scores have died and entire communities displaced as a late-season monsoon surge overwhelms fragile flood management systems.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by deadly floods sweeping across Thailand and Vietnam, a crisis that has killed scores and stranded entire communities as meteorologists and climate analysts warn of heavier rains driven by La Nina and long-term warming. The scale of the inundation has highlighted how a late-season monsoon surge, layered onto fragile flood-management systems, is overwhelming towns and cities from southern Thailand to Vietnam’s central coast, with Malaysia bracing itself for its turn as the severe weather moves south. Vast stretches of central and southern Thailand are under water after days of relentless rain breached riverbanks and forced authorities to release water from swollen dams.