Storm clouds gather over Southeast Asia's swollen Mekong River, which has risen to record heights.
A stretch of Southeast Asia’s famed Mekong River has risen to a level higher than ever measuredw before in parts of northern Thailand, inundating homes and farmland for hundreds of miles.
Similar inundations are also occurring in adjacent areas of Laos and Cambodia.
Officials at the Mekong River Commission said the current flood disaster is due to abnormally high runoff from northern stretches of the river basin, combined with torrential rainfall caused by Tropical Storm Kammuri, which dissipated over the region on August 9 to 11.
The Mekong empties into the South China Sea from southern Vietnam after flowing more than 2,500 miles from Tibet, through southeast China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
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