Three people die in hotel fire near Bangkok’s Khao San Road
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Three people die in hotel fire near Bangkok’s Khao San Road

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Firefighters at The burning Ember Hotel in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, late Sunday night. (Photo: Rama 199 Radio Centre)
Firefighters at The burning Ember Hotel in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, late Sunday night. (Photo: Rama 199 Radio Centre)

Three people died and seven others were injured in a hotel fire near Khao San Road in Phra Nakhon District late Sunday night.

Police said the fire broke at The Ember Hotel on Tanee Road begn about  9.21pm on Sunday.

Witnesses said it started on the fifth floor of the six-storey hotel. Firefighters controlled the flames in about an hour.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said about 40 people were inside the hotel and many of them were evacuated from the rooftop of the building by fire truck ladders.

One foreign woman was found dead in Room 502 on the fifth floor. Two foreign men were seriously injured and succumbed at hospitals later. Officials had yet to identify them.

The seven injured people were two Thai men, a Japanese man, a foreign woman, a German man, a German woman and a Chinese man.

Governor Chadchart said that firefighters put out the blaze quickly. He ordered the hotel closed pending safety inspections.

Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Sayam Boonsom said the fire started in Room 511 on the fifth floor. Police were investigating the cause of the fire.

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