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Second tourist in Bangkok hotel blaze dies

Second tourist in Bangkok hotel blaze dies

A second Russian has died after being caught in a fire at a major tourist hotel in Bangkok, which injured about 20 others in a popular visitor district, hospital staff and officials said Saturday.

Monday 12 March 2012 09:25 AM


The blaze broke out in a function room at the 221-room Grand Park Avenue Hotel off the Sukhumvit Road in the Thai capital on Thursday evening, and a female tourist died of suffocation the following day.

A male tourist, who was taken into intensive care, died early Saturday, according to a senior nurse at the Kluay Nam Thai hospital.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration released a statement saying both of the deceased were Russian, while most of the wounded had already been discharged.

AFP