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Bangkok Post
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Landslide closes Phuket hill road, airport route flooded

Motorists move carefully past an undermined section of the Kathu-Patong Road in Kathu district of Phuket on Wednesday. The road was later closed to traffic. (Photo: Rescue Worker Mai)

PHUKET: The Kathu-Patong Road was closed after a landslide on Wednesday, with air passengers warned to leave for Phuket airport several hours in advance because of flooding on the road.

Patong police closed the Kathu-Patong Road to traffic from 4pm as its foundation was seriously eroded, with rain-soaked soil sliding away from under a 250-metre-long section of the Patong mountain road in Kathu district.

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