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Thailand: 13 killed and 40 injured in nightclub fire

A video uploaded by rescuers shows people running screaming from a nightclub wearing burning clothes. | Font: AFP | Photographer: FLYER

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A fire in a nightclub in Thailand on Friday morning killed 13 people and injured 40, the rescue service said.

The fire started at the disco Mount B in Sattahip district of the province Chonburi, about 150 kilometers south of Bangkok, a spokesman for the Savang Rescue Fund Rojanathammasatana told AFP, asking not to reveal his identity.

A video uploaded by rescuers shows people running screaming from a nightclub wearing burning clothes.

The rescue service indicated that the acoustic foam lining the walls of the club accelerated the fire, and that firefighters The fire was brought under control in about three hours.

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This photograph, taken and released on August 5, 2022 by Savang Rojanathammasatan Rescue Foundation, shows rescuers at the Mountain B nightclub following a fire in the Sattahip district in Thailand’s Chonburi province. | Font: AFP | Photographer: FLYER

The dead, four women and nine men, were found mostly near the overcrowded entrance and toilets of the nightclub, their bodies badly burned, the rescue service said.

Apparently, all the victims are Thais.

“There are no foreigners among the dead,” a police lieutenant colonel told AFP. Bunseong Inyoung.

Weak health and safety measures in countless bars and nightclubs in Thailand have long been of concern.

Background

Hell broke loose at the 2009 New Year’s Eve party at the club santika from Bangkokwhere 67 people died and more than 200 were injured.

Most recently, in 2012, four people were killed in a fire caused by an electrical fault in a club on the island. Phuketone of the most touristic places in the country.

(According to AFP)

Source: RPP

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