Fire damages Indonesian embassy building

Fire damages Indonesian embassy building

No casualties reported

Firefighters extinguish the blaze in a two-story residential building in the Indonesian embassy compound in Bangkok on Friday. (AP photo)
Firefighters extinguish the blaze in a two-story residential building in the Indonesian embassy compound in Bangkok on Friday. (AP photo)

A fire damaged a two-story building in the Indonesian embassy compound in Bangkok on Friday. No casualties were reported.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's emergency services said the blaze began around noon in a residential building, but no one appeared to have been inside.

The fire sent out big plumes of smoke that could be seen through central Bangkok.

The emergency department's radio network and Uruphong Fire, a radio network for volunteer firefighters, both reported in social media posts that the fire was under control after less than an hour.

Phone calls to the embassy for further information went unanswered.

The cause of the fire wa not known.

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