Thai quake death toll reaches 17 with 77 missing, monorail still halted

Thai quake death toll reaches 17 with 77 missing, monorail still halted

A man looks on as rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed, following a strong earthquake, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 30, 2025. (REUTERS/Patipat Janthong)
A person looks on as firefighters work at the page of a tower that collapsed, following a powerful disaster, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 30, 2025. ( REUTERS/Patipat Janthong )

The death toll in Thailand from Friday’s strong disaster in Myanmar has reached 17 on Sunday, with 77 individuals missing, and a Bangkok-Nonthaburi rail remained halted due to a broken power road.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reported 17 mortality and 32 hurt people on Sunday night.

The death toll included 10 body at the fell page of the fresh State Audit Office element in Chatuchak area, Bangkok. The 10th figure was retrieved from the wreckage later Saturday evening. Eight people were injured and 77 people were missing at the decline page of the 30-storey building.

Seven different fatalities happened abroad, mainly at condo construction websites and including collapsed cranes. Three people were injured in a falling floor in the Silom place.

Search and rescue operations continued at the fell office of the State Audit Office under development in Chatuchak neighborhood on Sunday. Bangkok government Chadchart Sittipunt said City Hall received a building-scanning system from Israel to help the goal.

The removal of dust near the Din Daeng road slope was 80 % completed. If the job is never finished in time, the City Hall may reveal a work-from-home calculate on Monday, he said.

Electric trains resumed functions except the Bangkok-Nonthaburi Pink Line rail as its energy road was dislocated in Min Buri area, Bangkok.

City Hall said it had received about 9, 500 information on developing damage through the Traffy Fondue apps and voluntary specialists were deployed to examine the properties.

The Earthquake Observation Division reported that as of lunchtime Sunday there were 166 waves after the 8.2-magnitude Myanmar collapse at 1.20pm next Friday, including 159 with amplitude of 1.0-4.9 on the Richter Scale. There was one tremor with 7.1 enormity in Myanmar at 1.32pm on Friday.

The division even reported a 5.3-magnitude disaster 56 miles deep in northeastern Sumatra, 401 miles south of Phuket, at 9.58am Sunday Thailand period. The department said the collapse was not related to the Myanmar disaster next Friday, and there was no effect on Thailand nor a storm warning.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry reported that 55 Thai troops left for Mandalay, Naypyitaw and Yangon on ssl ://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2990417/quake-death-toll-in-bangkok-more-aftershocks-expectedSunday day to provide humanitarian aid and disaster relief.