Bangkok [Thailand], December 30 (ANI): As many as three folks have been killed and 7 others have been injured in a hearth incident in a lodge close to Khao San Road in Phra Nakhon district of Bangkok on Sunday night time, Bangkok Post reported.
Police mentioned the fireplace broke out at The Ember Hotel on Tanee Road started at about 9:21 pm (native time) on Sunday. According to witnesses, the fireplace erupted on the fifth flooring of the six-storey lodge.
Firefighters managed the blaze for about an hour. At the time of the incident, there have been 75 friends within the lodge. Of these, 34 folks fled to the rooftop of the constructing and have been evacuated utilizing hearth truck ladders.
The lady died within the room the place the fireplace is believed to have erupted whereas two males succumbed to accidents at Vajira Hospital and Samitivej Chinatown Hospital, in line with Bangkok Post report.
The three victims included a 24-year-old Brazilian lady, Pimentel Canales Albuquerque, a 27-year-old Ukrainian man, Tuzov Victor, and a 35-year-old American man, Freeman Timothy Jr. The seven injured folks have been two Thai males, a Japanese man, a international lady, a German man, a German lady and a Chinese man.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt mentioned that firefighters have been in a position to management the blaze shortly and ordered the lodge closed pending security inspections. Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Sayam Boonsom mentioned the fireplace erupted in Room 511 on the fifth flooring. Police have been finishing up an investigation to search out the reason for the fireplace.
The Brazilian lady was discovered lifeless in Room 511. Detectives assumed that she had mistakenly entered the room whereas making an attempt to flee from the smoke-filled lodge within the darkness, as its door was left open, Bangkok Post reported.
She had checked within the lodge alongside together with her boyfriend who had proposed to her final week they usually stayed in Room 504. According to the Bangkok Governor, the lodge, which opened in April 2022, had been constructed by the modification of 11 related business constructing models masking a mixed space of 1,515 sq. metres, the report mentioned.
The lodge had two hearth exits and adequate hearth extinguishers. He mentioned that the lodge didn’t have a sprinkler system because it was a small lodge that was not required to have such tools. (ANI)