Thailand has declared its southern Songkhla province a disaster zone, after heavy rainfall left thousands stranded and at least 13 people dead, according to Thai officials and media reports.

Floodwaters were running as high as 2 metres (6.6 feet) in some areas, days after the province’s Hat Yai district received 335mm (13 inches) of rain on Friday, its highest in a single day for three centuries.

Thailand’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Tuesday that 13 people had been killed in the flooding, according to the Bangkok Post.

About 150,000 people were stranded by rising floodwaters in Hat Yai, Seree Supratid, the director of the Climate Change and Disaster Centre at Rangsit University and vice president of the National Disaster Warning Council Foundation, wrote i

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