Minister says floods affect 90,303 families

Flooding has affected 90,303 families and flooded 83,007 houses nationwide, while 13,402 families have been evacuated so far from inundated areas, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said Monday. Citing data from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), Mr Kanharith also said in a posting to his Facebook site that the floods had damaged 238 houses. Officials at the NCDM, however, said they were still compiling data on the impact of the floods and could not corroborate the minister's figures...