DNA tests were required to identify the missing persons
PUBLISHED: 25 Apr 2025 at 13: 17
As the rescue operation gets closer to its conclusion, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration ( BMA ) has promised to locate all of the people still encased in the crumbling State Auditorium building.
As the rescue job gradually advances toward conclusion, BMA Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej told CU Radio on Friday that rescuers may not keep a single missing people about.
” We are determined to locate each and every one of them. We are certain to find 103, according to Ms. Tavida, who plays a crucial role in managing crisis responses. ” I will continue to look until we reach earth zero.”
34 people are still missing from the swift collapse of the 30-story building in Chatuchak area, which occurred as a result of Myanmar’s 7.7-magnitude disaster on March 28. Before the building’s full flattening, 103 people were employed in it. Nine people were seriously injured and 60 life lost in the event, all of whom have since been hospitalized.
The collapse caused the$ 2.14 billion-baht building to become a massive pile of steel, cement, and other materials, which stood 27 meters high on the day of the earthquake and covered an area of 1.6 % square kilometers. It has now been reduced to seven meters, and construction work is getting more and more close to the badly-failed state structure’s floor surface.
By the end of this month, according to Ms. Tavida, City Hall is anticipating to have all dirt removed from the ground floor, with work in the room expected to begin in May.
Because most body had been recovered from these regions, the activity remained concentrated in districts B and C of the construction. The two activity areas correspond to the areas where the stairways were constructed.
According to the lieutenant governor, numerous bodies were discovered in the two areas as a result of the collapse’s influence, which slanted in these areas and carried the workers with it.
On Thursday, bulldozers excavate the remains of the fell building. ( Photo: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Facebook page )
Three omissions
Authorities are searching for DNA from the family of three people who are all people of Myanmar.
According to Ms. Tavida, City Hall has contacted the Foreign Affairs Ministry and requested that the Thai consulate in Myanmar help in locating their friends and facilitate the set of DNA tests.
More than 100 body parts have been discovered beneath the rubble, and criminal researchers at Police General Hospital are attempting to meet them with DNA from their families.