Advancing pools of filthy water threatened the Thai capital's subway system Monday and surrounded the emergency headquarters set up to deal with flooding that has claimed more than 500 lives nationwide. Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra has ordered evacuations in 11 of Bangkok's 50 districts, and partial evacuations apply in seven more, as the huge runoff from monsoon-buffeted central Thailand seeps south through the metropolitan area to the sea.
Image: A Thai boy swims near a mall along flooded streets in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, November 6, 2011.
Text: AP
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Image: A Thai boy swims near a mall along flooded streets in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, November 6, 2011.
Text: AP
Images: AP/AFP
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