November 11-2011

Thai peoples walk next to a wall of sandbags put up to protect floodwater in front of a shopping center in the business district of Silom road in Bangkok, Thailand, 11 November 2011. Water-logged Bangkok could be dry within 11 days, but meanwhile floodwater are spreading in the capital threatening the inner city, media reports said. Central Thailand has been hit by the worst floods in decades this monsoon season, which had claimed over 500 lives and caused billions of dollars in damage to farmland, industry and private property.

Thai residents wade through floodwater on Viphawadi road in Bangkok, Thailand, 11 November 2011. Water-logged Bangkok could be dry within 11 days, but meanwhile floodwater are spreading in the capital threatening the inner city, media reports said. Central Thailand has been hit by the worst floods in decades this monsoon season, which had claimed over 500 lives and caused billions of dollars in damage to farmland, industry and private property.