False Alarm! Photo of Pattaya Floods on Facebook

[Pattaya Daily News]

Published : October 17, 2013 :: 18:10:51 [ 230 views ]

False Alarm! Photo of Pattaya Floods on Facebook

Typhoon "Naree" that hit the East of Thailand on Monday caused heavy rainfall in Pattaya, making a group of people seize the opportunity to post pictures that showed pictures of floods that were exaggerated by an extent as the floods were as violent as shown in the pictures that are circulating on Facebook were from 2011.

PATTAYA – October 17, 2013 [PDN]; Pattaya City has said that pictures of a supposed floods in Pattaya were taken back in 2011 and were re-posted on the social networking site. This picture was a hot topic yesterday, the picture was shared several thousand. Pattaya City fears that this misleading picture will cause disruptions to tourism in Pattaya, which of course led to this impromptu announcement.

Pattaya City stated that several foreigners who were about to travel to Pattaya called up Pattaya City and asked officers whether the pictures were real or not. As for now, no tours or hotel reservations were cancelled yet.

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[elchino]

Had some real photos from Oct 5, 2013 beach road flooding but don't know how to attach them

or copy and paste them to post.