BANGKOK—The threat that floodwaters will inundate Thailand’s capital could ease by the beginning of next month as record-high levels in the river carrying torrents of water downstream from the country’s north begin to decline, authorities said Sunday. The Flood Relief Operations Command made the comments just a day after reports that Bangkok’s main Chao Phraya river was overflowing its banks deepened concerns that the city would be inundated. The report said the river was at its highest levels in seven years. The command’s chief, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok, said in a televised press conference Sunday that people should not be too concerned about the river’s spillover because it…
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