Shutterstock Illustration fires.BANGKOK, KOMPAS.com -Fire hit a nightclub which is popular with foreign tourists in Thailand, Friday (17/8/2012) morning. Four people were killed and 20 others injured in the incident, officials said.
Hospital staff say there are a number of foreign nationals who fall victim in nightclub Tiger in Phuket. The officer issued a helper-charred bodies from the wreckage of the building that still smokes.
"There were four victims who certainly died. We are confident they are foreign tourists, but we haven't been checking this, "said the Deputy Governor of Phuket Chamroen Tipayapongtada.
"The fire was caused by lightning grabbed a transformer and the fire spread quickly," he added.
Hospital officials said the wounded comprised of citizens of Thailand's foreign residents. "We have received more than 20 people were injured in the fire Tiger Pub. Almost all experienced shortness of breath, "said an officer of RS.
"Two people in critical condition due to severe burns. One of them is a citizen of France who suffered burns in the stomach, "he said.
"Four bodies charred casualties and could not be identified. We can't even know the sex, "he added.
The scene becomes a spectacle so that people have to drive them to police the ambulance could enter the location for the evacuation of victims, local media reported.
"The 2nd floor, where the fire is completely out," said provincial officials on the scene.
Concerns about safeguards against fire in nightclub in Thailand appear when there is a fire in a disco club in Bangkok in 2009. In the event that more than 60 people were killed, including foreigners. They were middle of the celebrate the new year when the fire broke out. In the incident that hundreds of people are in the Santika Club and enjoy a performance by a rock band.
Owners of nightclub that declared negligent and dropping court sentencing three years in prison.
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