A fire at a nightclub in the popular Thailand tourist destination of Phuket has killed 4 people and injured about a dozen others. Fire swept through nightclub frequented by foreign tourists on the southern resort island of Phuket.
Hotels at a Thailand resort popular with Britains are being asked to check for missing guests after 4 foreign tourists have been killed in a fire that swept a local nightclub in the city of Phuket.
Four partygoers were burned to death beyond recognition after the blaze tore through the Tiger Disco club in the early hours of the morning. Scared onlookers told of people running on fire from the club in the Thai resort island of Patong, Phuket, after a lightning strike and heavy rain sparked an electrical fire.
As the blaze engrossed the building on one of Patong’s busiest streets for nightlife the building teetered on the brink of collapse, threatening to crush those who remained inside.
Four people were killed in the Phuket blaze, Thailand
A police officer in Kratu district has told to the reporters that it was probably due to the strong rainfall, which caused a transformer to explode. The fire then spread to the pub, causing significant damage.
Outside the blackened remains of the Tiger Disco nightclub, much of which was destroyed by the blaze, police kept back a crowd of onlookers as ambulances arrived to collect the casualties.
Witnesses said there was a power blackout and it was raining. When the power came back they heard a loud explosion and the fire broke out. The chief executive with the Tiger Group which runs the nightclub, told to the reporters that the venue was officially closed at the time of the fire but about 70-80 people were still inside sheltering from heavy rain.
‘ What happened is a force majeure. There were up to three lightning strikes and blackouts before the fire broke out. We fully comply with the law on fire exits. We will not duck responsibility. We are sorry. I’ve sent staff to hospital to look after the injured people ‘, he said.
Four dead in a fire at Thailand’s Nightclub
Thailand is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, attracting around 19 million visitors last year to its beaches, temples and nightlife in the capital, Bangkok.
But robberies and scams are on the rise in some areas, and an Australian woman died in Phuket in June after being stabbed while trying to fend off a bag-snatcher.
Lax safety standards are a problem. In the worst incident in recent years, 66 people died and more than 2 hundred were injured when a fire broke out in a club in central Bangkok as people were welcoming in the new year in the early hours of 1 January last year.
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