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Bangkok residents in the west of the capital flee as floodwaters rose rapidly on Wednesday.
The water rose up to 30 centimetres on some roads in Bang Khae district on the west side of the Chao Phraya river.
Outbound traffic was was heavy with motorists trying to drive out of the area.
Inner Bangkok, protected by a network of dikes and sandbag walls, survived peak tides on the weekend and remains mostly dry.
But huge amounts of water are bottled up to the north, west and east of the city, and new areas are being flooded daily as the water tries to find its way out southwards to the sea.
At least 427 people have been killed, economic growth has been hit and investor confidence shaken as the water swamped industrial estates in the central Chao Phraya river basin, disrupting global supply lines for auto and computer parts.
