Parts of six northern provinces are still under water as a result of heavy rain brought by tropical storm Mulan - now downgraded to a tropical depression over Vietnam - the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Sunday.
The tropical depression, augmented by a monsoon lying across Myanmar, northern Thailand and northern Laos, brought heavy to very heavy rain to the North and Northeast regions of Thailand during Aug 11-14.
A total of 609 villages in 109 tambons and 34 districts of 11 provinces - Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Nan, Lampang, Phrae, Phitsanulok, Nakhon Phanom, Loei and Prachin Buri - were flooded, affecting 5,477 households. A villager was reported killed in Chiang Rai.
On Sunday morning, 391 villages in 25 districts of Chiang Rai, Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Phayao, Nan and Phitsanulok provinces in the North were still flooded but the water levels were receding.
