Fire Kills 59 - Bangkok Nightclub

by LotusFlower | January 1, 2009 at 03:05 am

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Police are investigating the cause of a fire that swept through a Bangkok nightclub on New Years Eve killing 59 people and injuring many others.

Initial reports suggest that firworks were allowed into the club and could have started the fire.

Police in the Thai capital Bangkok are investigating the cause of the New Year's Eve fire at a city nightclub that killed 59 people.

More than 200 people, including at least four Britons, were injured in the fire at the Santika club.

There are suspicions that firecrackers released inside the club may have been the cause of the blaze.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been to see the charred remains of the building, and met injured victims.

"The problem was that firecrackers were allowed to be brought inside (the nightclub), that is the issue about which we have to be more cautious and it has to be controlled more strictly," Mr Abhisit told reporters.