Tropical showers in Phuket left Russians without international passports": Rains in Thailand flooded an office with Russian passports.
"Tropical rains on the island of Thai Phuket led to the flooding of the immigration office, where the foreign passports of the Russians were kept. The documents were badly damaged. Among the victims are clients of a language school that helps in obtaining student visas. Their passports went through all the required procedures, their passports were already stamped, but the owners could only collect the documents to the office beforehand.
Now the affected foreigners will have to recover documents and incur additional costs. It is not yet known who will compensate for the damage. The language school considers its obligations fulfilled, since the visas have already been issued."