BMA to increase festival security
published : 1 Nov 2022 at 13:01
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: MONGKOL BANGPRAPA and SUPOJ WANCHAROEN
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to tighten safety measures at public areas during this year's Loy Krathong festival.
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt announced the plan on Monday, following the tragedy in Seoul's Itaewon district last week which claimed at least 154 lives.
This year, Loy Krathong celebrations will be organised at Klong Ong Ang on Nov 8. Similar celebrations will be held at 31 public parks across Bangkok, as well as a number of historical sites in the capital.
Loy Krathong celebrations generally draw large crowds.
Mr Chadchart said he has ordered deputy Bangkok governors and all district office chiefs across Bangkok to come up with plans to ensure public safety.
"Festival organisers have been told to prevent overcrowding at their venues. The BMA will come up with the strictest possible measure to prevent [a crowd surge]."
The governor saidauthorities are more worried about people falling into rivers or other waterways, rather than a crowd surge.
When asked what the public can do to prevent fatalities at crowded events in the future, Mr Chadchart said schools should teach students cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Vocabulary
- celebration: a party or special event at which you celebrate something such as a birthday, a festival or a religious holiday - การฉลอง
- chief: a person with a high rank or the highest rank in a company or an organisation - หัวหน้า, ผู้นำ
- CPR (noun): 'cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ (breathing air into the mouth of an unconscious person and pressing on their chest to keep them alive by sending air around their body) - การปั๊มหัวใจ
- ensure: to make certain that something happens or is done - ให้การยืนยัน, รับรอง, ให้ความมั่นใจ
- generally: true in most cases and situations - โดยทั่วไป, โดยปกติ, ส่วนมาก
- governor: a person who is chosen to be in charge of the government of a state or province or a government agency - ผู้ว่าการรัฐ, ผู้ว่าราชการจังหวัด
- overcrowding (noun): having too many people or things in something ซึ่งแออัดยัดเยียด - ซึ่งแออัดยัดเยียด
- prevent (verb): to stop somebody from doing something; to stop something from happening - ขัดขวาง, ป้องกัน, กัน, กีดขวาง
- security: protection; safety from attack, harm, or damage - ความมั่นคง, ระบบรักษาความปลอดภั, ความปลอดภัย
- surge (noun): a rapid forward movement, especially by a group of people or things - การเคลื่อนเข้ามา
- tragedy: a very sad event that causes people to suffer or die - โศกนาฏกรรม
