Thai soldiers sweep once flooded streets in a big cleaning day at Lat Phrao shopping district as floodwaters recede from the area, in Bangkok, Thailand, 19 November 2011. With tens of thousands of soldiers on the streets helping flood affected people, Thais are applauding their assistance restoring the formerly tarnished image of Thai forces after their involvement in the bloody crackdown of 2010 red shirt political protests. As floodwaters start to recede in some parts of Bangkok, Thailand is counting the enormous cost after weeks of flooding as millions of people remain affected by the worst flooding in five decades. More than 500 deaths have been reported in the disaster and it has caused billions of dollars in damages to residents homes, small businesses and to many foreign owned industrial manufacturing plants, as well as tourist sites. |
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