A woman was forced to store her drowned mother's body in a floating refrigerator as floodwaters poured through their home in Hat Yai.
A rescue worker shared a video on Tuesday showing the heartbreaking moment he discovered the woman, with the words "It breaks my heart that we arrived too late. She drowned."
The tragedy happened in The Rich village, Ban Pru, Hat Yai district.
A rescue team discovered a woman clinging to a floating refrigerator inside a house where the water level had risen nearly to the roof. She told them, "The water rose very high during the night. My mother couldn't hold on any longer."
The 80-year-old mother drowned. Her daughter placed her body in a refrigerator to prevent it being swept away by the strong current as the water depth reached around 1.8 metres.
A rescue team finally reached them and took the daughter and her mother's body to dry ground. There, the daughter collapsed, overwhelmed by her horrific experience.
The post drew sympathy, along with urgent calls for help from other residents still trapped in the rising water.
More than 2.78 million people's lives have been severely disrupted by the flooding in the southern provinces, with hundreds of thousands of homes inundated.
