PUBLISHED: 30 Dec 2024 at 07: 54
In a lodge fireplace near Khao San Road in Phra Nakhon District later on Sunday evening, three people died and seven others were hurt.
At 9:21 p.m. on Sunday, the blaze broke out at The Ember Hotel on Tanee Road.
Witnesses claimed it began on the second floor of the six-story resort. Within an hour, rescuers managed the lights.
About 40 people were inside the lodge, according to Bangkok government Chadchart Sittipunt, and many of them were escorted from the building’s top by fire truck ramps.
In Room 502, on the second floor, a foreign person was discovered useless. Two international men suffered severe injuries and afterward died in a hospital. Officials had yet to discover their citizenship.
Seven hurt people consisted of two Thai gentlemen, a Japanese male, a foreign person, a German gentleman, a European woman and a Chinese gentleman.
According to Governor Chadchart, rescuers put out the fire right away. He placed a health check on the resort before closing it.
Police were looking into the cause of the fire.