At a press conference in the afternoon, the deputy governor of Bangkok, Tavada Kamolvej, said that the missing people are people who think they were trapped in the rubble of the 30-story tower who collapsed in Chatuchak, while the authorities had previously estimated the number of missing in 83
At least 18 people died, another 33 were injured and 78 are missing in Bangkok after the impact of the 7.7 degree earthquake on the Thai capital on Friday, according to the last count released today by local authorities.
Most of the deaths (11) occurred after the collapse of a building under construction near the tourist market of Chatuchak, in the capital, while the other seven were recorded in other parts of the city, according to the Bang of Bang of Bang of Balance, released on the social network Facebook.
Authorities today recovered another body from the mountain of rubble left by the building that collapsed.
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today that the priority is the rescue operation in Chatuchak, 48 hours after the earthquake, stating that there are “signs” of survivors in some collapse zones.
At a press conference in the afternoon, the deputy governor of Bangkok, Tavada Kamolvej, said that the 78 missing people are people who are stuck in the rubble of the 30-story tower who collapsed in Chatuchak, while the authorities had previously estimated the number of missing in 83.
Thailand has not disclosed the nationalities of affected people, but is transmitting information about the chatuchak incident in both Thai and Burmese, as many construction workers in the country come from the impoverished neighboring nation of Myanmar (former Burma).
According to EFE agency, the Burmese is among those awaiting news of the missing at the disaster site and the Burmese ambassador in Thailand, Zaw Zaw SOE, visited Saturday the site of the tragedy.
The governor said today that the engineers had verified 723 buildings in the capital and that only two had been declared insecure after the strong earthquake, whose epicenter occurred about 1,000 kilometers away, between the Burmese cities of Mandalay and Sagaing.
In Myanmar, the military junta that has been holding power since the 2021 coup d’état advanced on Saturday that the earthquake will have caused 1,644 dead, 3,408 injured and 139 missing.
