A teacher posted a clip of kindergarten children at a school in Thoeng District, Chiang Rai Province, fleeing a flash flood, warning those involved to be vigilant about the water situation in the North at this time.
The clip shows dozens of kindergarten boys and girls running out of school with backpacks in the rain, with teachers shouting for the children to run away quickly. There is also a clip of a large amount of flash floods flowing into the back of the school unexpectedly. The incident occurred on September 3.
The entire clip was posted by a Facebook user with the caption: ‘Help us, the road and school are about to collapse. The Child Development Center, which is in the Piang Luang School, 16 classrooms, Ban Rom Pho Thong, Village No. 19, Tambon Tap Tao, Amphoe Thoeng, Chiang Rai Province, after heavy rain on August 21st – Addition on September 3rd.’
Later, Teacher Amporn, the coordinating teacher, revealed that this incident occurred on September 3rd at 2:30 p.m., which was when the children were
taking a nap. At that time, it had been raining continuously for more than 2 hours. The teacher began to notice that the soil was holding more water than usual, which made her think back to August 21st when there was a similar heavy rain and a flash flood. She was worried that it would happen again, so she had to hurry the children and run away and post it as a warning. Her intention was not to make anyone panic, but to ask those involved to help observe the surrounding conditions and to warn relatives in the plains about the dangers of flooding that had occurred for the second time.
Source: Thai News Agency