Thai workers run in panic after they were told to evacuate as water started to break through the makeshift barriers made of sand bags at Nawa Nakhon industrial estate on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
BANGKOK - The Thai capital needs 1.2 million sandbags to construct a 3.7-mile wall within 48 hours to keep encroaching floods from swamping into the city, Bangkok's governor said Monday night.
"Every second counts," said Sukhumbhand Paribatra, whose call for city residents not to let down their guard posed a contrast to government statements in the morning that the flood threat to Bangkok appeared to be easing.
Sukhumbhand said barriers had to be built up at several canals carrying overflow water from Pathum Thani province just north of Bangkok, where soldiers joined volunteers in trying to save the country's oldest industrial estate from being inundated.
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