Foreign Position cautions Filipinos against Move to Bangkok
Published November 4, 2011 | 
The Department of Strange Affairs advised Filipinos planning to go to Bangkok to reconsider their trips due to the flooding in the Thai capital and elsewhere in the country.
The DFA, citing a report from the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok, articulated travelers should gravely view posing of their trip particularly if it was “non-essential.”
“The extent of the flooding billet in Bangkok is modifying selfsame rapidly. No one is certain what would hap between today and November 1, when the flooding is expected to peak due to the high tides and the large book of water flowing from the northern provinces through the Chao Phraya River, which is directly traversing Bangkok itself,” the DFA said.
It added that peak officials of Thailand receive demanded residents to motility to higher ground in preparation for possible flooding.
Transport services receive been suspended in some regions of Bangkok, the embassy said, adding that heap and train stations receive been jammed by crowds of people leaving the city.
Suvarnabhumi International Airport has also been packed with people flying away of Thailand or to other provinces that are not flooded, the embassy said.
It advised Filipinos who are already in Thailand to proceed a stock of food and water, proceed lines of communication open, and to contact the embassy now if they feel that they are in danger.
The embassy pronounced it would proceed to render assistance to Filipinos moved by the flooding in Bangkok.
Meanwhile, due to the situation in Bangkok, Philippine Arlines and Cebu Pacific announced that they were providing options for passengers with confirmed flying bookings to the flooded city.
