Hope remains for two potential survivors trapped beneath the wreckage of a collapsed government building in Bangkok's Chatuchak district, as two additional bodies were recovered following the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in central Myanmar on March 28.
The fatalities, the 28th and 29th from the collapsed State Audit Office (SAO) building, were found in Zone C and retrieved from the debris at 12.30am and 1.10am Saturday.
Details about the recovered bodies remain undisclosed, as they have been sent for forensic analysis.
Rescuers said that the victims were found in a separate area from where a mobile phone light reignited hopes of survivors still being trapped below.
Search teams, accompanied by K9 units, began sweeping zones A and B at 6am, where they believed survivors could still be located. They retrieved what is thought to be a human head from one location after accessing it with a crane, but further testing is required to determine if it is linked to the victims of the collapse.
Members of the media observed personnel from the Department of Special Investigations (DSI), state civil engineers and representatives of China Railway Engineering No.10 (Thailand) Co (CREC) entering the site, though no information regarding their activities has been provided.
Rescuer Chanawich Sangkum reported that teams have not yet reached the area where the mobile phone light was spotted, which appeared to signal for help.
Preliminary camera surveys and scans have heightened hopes, but there has been no confirmation of living people in that area, according to Mr Chanawich.
There were 103 workers and other people inside the 2.1-billion-baht skyscraper before it was turned into a pile of rubble when Bangkok was jolted by the Myanmar quake on March 28.
As of 10am on Saturday, the tally stood at 32 dead, nine injured and 62 missing, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
A rescuer uses a flashlight to search for survivors amid the debris of the collapsed building on Friday night.
