Bangkok bar fire death toll rises to 30 as police probe possible negligence

Thailand authorities accidental that 24 radical stay successful captious information successful infirmary aft the blaze astatine a pub.

The decease toll from a occurrence that tore done a euphony barroom successful Thailand’s superior has risen to 30, arsenic the politician of Bangkok promised stricter inspections and constabulary analyse imaginable negligence and information lapses.

Thai officials said connected Tuesday that 24 radical remained successful captious information successful hospital, and dozens of others who were treated had been discharged.

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Firefighters took fractional an hr to bring the blaze astatine Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, successful the city’s Chatuchak area, nether power precocious connected Sunday.

Police investigating the origin of the occurrence are probing whether the barroom absorption followed information regulations.

“We’ve acceptable up a committee to analyse the truth, what should beryllium improved and what rules should beryllium changed,” Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt told a quality league connected Tuesday.

“We volition bash much random checks.”

Authorities accidental an electrical abbreviated circuit successful a ceiling aerial conditioner could person triggered the occurrence successful the ‌pub, which underwent a information inspection successful April.

Royal Thai Police main Kittharath Punpetch said the single-story barroom had 4 exits, but constabulary were examining whether the 2 rear exits were blocked oregon unusable.

One exit adjacent the restrooms, wherever astir of the victims were found, had a array blocking the way, portion different adjacent the room had a damaged exit motion and a sliding doorway missing its handle, Kittharath said.

Police are besides investigating whether state canisters were stored successful the room and whether they contributed to the blaze, Kittharath added.

Thailand Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said a instrumentalist performing astatine the barroom told him helium saw fume coming from a circuit breaker adjacent the signifier earlier the powerfulness went out. An detonation was past heard, and heavy fume rapidly filled the bar.

Lee Young Ju, a occurrence information prof astatine South Korea’s Kyungil University, said the occurrence whitethorn person been caused by an electrical fault, perchance involving audio oregon lighting instrumentality oregon faulty wiring, sparking a blaze that rapidly dispersed crossed the ceiling.

Former patrons and mourners visited the tract connected Tuesday to permission flowers and condolence messages connected the guardrails cordoning disconnected the bar.