Wedding plan becomes a funeral for building collapse victim

Wedding plan becomes a funeral for building collapse victim

Both the fresh Nakhon Phanom residents worked at the site in Bangkok. She lived while he passed away.

Sakhon Sirarak looks at a picture of his son, Jakkrit, placed near his coffin at home in Ban Khamsawang in Muang district of Nakhon Phanom province, on Thursday. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai)
On Thursday, Sakhon Sirarak examines a photo of his brother Jakkrit, who was buried next to his coffin at his house in Ban Khamsawang in the Muang area of Nakhon Phanom province. ( Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai )

Jakkrit Sirarak, a building worker at NAKHON PHANOM, was saving money for his wedding in April to his partner and co-worker.

His parents, Sakhon, received his son’s figure on Thursday after DNA testing revealed he was one of the victims of the State Audit Office decline, instead of a happy homecoming.

Boonrod Othathawong, 34, and Jakkrit, 18, who merely identified his girlfriend as Fon, 16, were both from Ban Khamsawang in the capital’s Chatuchak city and had spent more than a year working at the building site there. When the building sank in March 28 due to an earthquake, simply Fon was able to survive.

His father claimed that Jakkrit and Fon were looking forward to visiting the northern province to observe the Songkran event. He intended to request Fon’s parents ‘ permission to wed their daughter. The parents ended up visiting the tower page and staying there for about a month before getting ready for a wedding.

” I had hoped for a mystery,” he said. However, when I saw the hills of debris, I realized it was almost unavoidable,” Mr. Sakhon said.

Out of the 109 workers in the building at the time the Bangkok, key Myanmar, was quake-stricken on March 28 and 87 of them have been confirmed dying, out of which 109 were working there. 13 citizens are also missing, and nine were hurt.

On the second floor, Jakkrit, Fon, and their coworkers were present that evening. She told Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt that Jakkrit went to a bathroom on the 10th surface while Fon went to the ground floor.

As the search and rescue operation progressed, Fon also realized that her chances of finding her sweetheart dead were diminishing.

In honor of the caretaker nature of the story where the tower had stood, she lit incense in front of the dust on April 18.

” Choose locate him and take him out. I can recognize that whatever shape he may be in, she said.