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A man uses a boat to transport a boy through the flooded streets of Bang Phlat district in Bangkok on November 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif By Robert Birsel BANGKOK | Wed Nov 2, 2011 2:31am EDT BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate on Wednesday that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. The central government led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, sister of the ousted populist premier Thaksin Shinawatra, is at odds with the city government dominated by the main opposition and former ruling Democrat party. The floods that have killed 427 people since July are the first big test for Yingluck, who came to power in a July election that many Thais hoped would heal divisions that last year brought violent clashes in Southeast Asia's second biggest economy. 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 to sea to the south. Anger is seething in flooded communities on the wrong side of inner Bangkok's flood barricades. Residents of the northeastern Bangkok suburb of Sam Wa took matters into their own hands this week and hacked away at the side of a canal flood gate, aiming to let the water flow out of their area toward the city center. Yingluck ordered the gate opened in the face of the residents' demands. The Bangkok government objected on the grounds that the flow could endanger the city center. But the city had to comply with Yingluck's order to open the gate by a meter (three feet) leading to fear among inner city folk that the disaster they thought they had dodged was again looming. On Wednesday, city officials and workers went to the Sam Wa flood gate to repair the damage and limit the amount of water flowing through. "We are here doing the repair work and the police are protecting us," said city administration spokesman Jate Sopitpongstorn. "They have to accept it," he said of the neighborhood's residents, adding there was no sign of protests. "COMPLICATED SYSTEM" The city says the nearby Bang Chan industrial estate has been put in danger by the flow through the gate and Jate said it was not yet known if it would be safe. The floods began in July, at the beginning of a particularly heavy rainy season. 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. Water is also approaching central Bangkok from the northern Don Muang district, where the city's domestic airport has already been flooded and where one resident said the water had risen 5 cm (two inches) in his house on Wednesday. City deputy governor Theerachon Manomaipaiboon said workers were building a wall of giant sandbags to try to stop the flow toward the city center from the north. But the flood was difficult to predict as it made its way through an ancient and often partly built over network of canals and tunnels. "We are using the big bags to block the water but we have a very complicated system. Water in one area can appear 20 km (12 miles) away," Theerachon told Reuters. Bangkok's 12 million people account for 41 percent of Thailand's gross domestic product and neither the central government nor the city administration wants to be seen responsible for an inner city deluge. Both sides will claim victory if the center can be saved. 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