PUBLISHED: 6 Oct 2024 at 07: 11
According to the Office of Attorney-General, some parents of the bus fire victims ‘ families have attempted to recover the compensation pay of one million baht each despite having no say in raising the children.
According to Kosolwat Inthuchanyong, head of the company for rights security and legal support under the OAG, the municipal prosecutors office in Uthai Thani has reached out to the families of the victims and found some issues.
Twenty kids and three teachers were killed next Tuesday when their vehicle sprang into flames on Pathhavadi Rangsit Road in Pathum Thani while they were on a school trip from the state’s Wat Khao Praya Sangkharam School. According to Mr. Kosolwat, steps were being taken to assist parents of the victims of the vehicle inferno, including the wounded and the parents of the deceased and teachers.
Payment was being distributed to affected communities, under a plan approved by the government, and lawyers were on hand to help participants fill out important documents, he said. The company may also make sure that the deceased and injured’s people received the full payment they were entitled to.
But, Mr. Kosolwat claimed issues have arisen where some families of some individuals have stepped forward to claim settlement despite having no influence over their children’s development. These families had abandoned the kids to parents or friends when they were younger.
Some babies were cared for by a single family, according to Mr. Kosolwat. The other kids have then filed a partial or complete legal objection to the payment.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission is looking into whether state officers were involved in the alleged unlawful assembly of oil tanks on the buses the organization hired to transport students and teachers.
The Thailand Consumer Council, however, has come up with a plan to ramp up requirements of college rides and in people transportation, to be forwarded to the state this year.
On Saturday class getaways must be arranged to fit certain ages of students, according to Kongsak Chuenkrailas, assistant director of the council’s sub-committee on transportation and vehicles. In next week’s vacation, kindergarteners and older students were travelling up and heading to the same sights.
Forty-seater cars, or larger automobiles, may take out plan that offers at least 30 million bass compensation to people in case of accidents. Bus companies that operate in the current transportation industry are required to purchase a policy with a minimum of 10 million baht of insurance. In addition, the council will ask the government to incorporate emergency drills in the school curriculum, to be passed on as part of the scout training.
To stop scams and confusion, deputy education minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul said the ministry would be the only party soliciting donations for the bus victims and their families on Saturday. At the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, public health minister Somsak Thepsutin reported that a young student receiving a skin graft after suffering from severe burns.