Thai-Cambodian Flooding Worst In Decades - Nearly 400 Confirmed Dead - Al Jazeera

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Nearly 400 people have died in Cambodia and Thailand as a result of what officials in the Southeast Asian region are describing as the worst monsoon flooding in decades. By Wednesday, after several weeks of heavy rain, at least 224 people had been confirmed killed in Thailand and another 167 were found dead in Cambodia.

Keo Vy, spokesman for Cambodia's National Committee for Disaster Management, said that this year's flooding had already exceeded the human and economic toll exacted by the flood season in 2000, which was considered severe.

In a statement to the Xinhua news agency, Vy said the flooding that began in August had now affected the lives of more than 200,000 families in the nation of 14 million.

He said that the flooding of the Mekong River, the region's vital waterway, has inundated an estimated 291,000 hectares of rice paddy, 200km of national roads and up to another 2,019km of gravel roads throughout Cambodia.

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