Map Ta Phut toll: 12 dead,129 injured

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Map Ta Phut toll: 12 dead,129 injured

Published: 6 May 2012 at 13.39
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Twelve people were killed and 129 hurt in the explosion and fire at a petrochemical factory at the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Rayong province on Saturday, Deputy Public Health Minister Surawit Khonsomboon confirmed on Sunday.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra travelled to Map Ta Phut on Sunday for talks, and visited victims of the explosion at the hospital.

Mr Surawit said of the 12 killed, nine died in the explosion at a factory owned by Bangkok Synthethics Co (BSC), two at Bangkok-Rayong Hospital and one at Rayong Hospital.

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Ian Wensor
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Discussion 3 : 07 May 2012 at 10.183
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Seems life is cheap in Thailand - compared to the cost of living and the overly valued baht.
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While visiting the injured in Map Ta Phut, maybe Yingluck should have told them that the disaster wasn't as bad as she'd expected and the pain they were suffering was similar to the rising cost of living in that ... it was only in their heads.
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Discussion 1 : 06 May 2012 at 21.511
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Bangkok Synthetics was one of the 76 companies who had their operations halted in 2009 by a court order for unsafe and unhealthy practices.
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