Bangkok — Three international nationals together with an American man died and 7 different folks had been injured by a fireplace at a lodge in a preferred vacationer space of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, metropolis authorities stated Monday. Thailand’s nationwide police stated in a submit on social media {that a} Brazilian girl died on the lodge and two males, an American and a Ukrainian, had been pronounced lifeless at a neighborhood hospital.
The reason for the Sunday evening blaze on the Ember Lodge close to Khao San Street, an space fashionable with backpackers and finances vacationers, was nonetheless underneath investigation.
A State Division spokesperson in Washington confirmed the dying of a U.S. citizen in Bangkok to CBS Information on Monday and provided the U.S. authorities’s condolences to the household, however declined to supply any additional info citing privateness concerns.
5 different foreigners and two Thai nationals had been injured, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration stated Monday.
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Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt stated firefighters reached the scene of the six-story lodge inside 5 minutes of being alerted and rescued some 75 folks with three cranes. Sittipunt ordered the lodge’s closure and investigations into the alarm system.
In July a fireplace broke out in Khao San Street’s busy Chinatown district, main municipal authorities to deploy 40 hearth engines to battle the blaze.
A month earlier a fireplace ripped by means of pet retailers close to Bangkok’s famed Chatuchak market, killing many caged animals and destroying stalls.
Considerations have lengthy been raised about Thailand’s lax strategy to well being and security laws, significantly in its numerous bars and resorts.
The dominion expects 1.5 million international vacationers over the brand new yr interval, authorities spokesman Jirayu Houngsub instructed native media, because the capital prepares a fireworks show Tuesday evening.
Municipal authorities stated Monday they’d “stand by for readiness” forward of the celebrations.
