A member of the emergency response team at Patong Hospital, who asked not to be named, said that the four victims of the blaze were so badly burned that it was not even possible to discern whether they were men or women.
Anyone worried about a missing relative oR friend who might have been in the disco at the time of the fire is urged to call either Patong Hospital (+66 76 342 633-4) or, for foreign languages, the Patong Tourist Police Volunteers (1155), Claude de Crissey (French, English or Spanish - 081 893 6677), Margot Steiner (English, French, German or Spanish - 087 891 1518) or Igor Protasov (Russian, Ukrainian, English, German, Slovak or Czech - 082 444 0555).