Just outside Bangkok, Thailand’s investment, a vehicle carrying tens of primary school students exploded in flames.
Sixteen kids and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 kids and three teachers are also unaccounted for, according to the country’s transport secretary.
According to the BBC Thai services, authorities claim to have discovered ten systems on the vehicle.
The vehicle was entirely destroyed by the blaze, according to photos. Local media reports that authorities were unable to provide the vehicle due to the heat.
One of three buses carrying children and teachers from a field trip to a university in the northeastern province of Uthai Thani was the other.
Suriyahe Juangroongruangkit, the secretary of transportation, claimed the vehicle was powered by compressed natural oil.
” This is a very tragic incident”, Mr Suriyahe told reporters at the scene.
” The ministry must find a measure … if possible, for passenger vehicles like this to be banned from using this type of fuel because it’s extremely risky”, he added.
Thailand’s premier minister, however, has ordered officials to explore the picture.
” As a mom, I would like to express my deepest regrets to the families of those who were killed,” said Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
She continued,” The government will be held accountable for all the medical expenses and the payment for those who have died.”
A recovery employee reported in video that appeared on local television that the vehicle was crashing into a challenge as it was heading into Bangkok when a wheel collapse.
The vehicle was engulfed in flames as it burned beneath an bridge, and video images from the scene showed massive clouds of thick black soot billowing into the sky.
The age of the kids onboard is unknown, but the university has children between the ages of three and fifteen.
Thailand’s record for road safety is among the worst in the earth, with poor driving and unsafe driving contributing to the high death toll rate each year.