Posted on 07/13/2026 6:12:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A huge fire tore through a bar in Thailand's capital Bangkok late on Sunday, killing at least 28 people and leaving 25 critically injured.
The blaze started near the stage of the bar in the popular Chatuchak district, then spread rapidly, cutting power and engulfing the room with smoke, eyewitnesses say.
Footage posted online shows panicked customers screaming as they fled – some with their clothes on fire – through the flame-enveloped front door of Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao.
Firefighters, who arrived at the scene just after midnight, quickly extinguished the fire. They found the bodies of most of the victims in a bathroom, where they had apparently sought shelter.
One survivor escaped by seconds after she stepped outside for a cigarette, Reuters news agency reported. "There was a boom – a very fast boom... There was no way to get out at all," 41-year-old Usa Tadsree said.
She described seeing rescuers carry out the body of a friend she was drinking and enjoying the music with, just minutes earlier.
"It looked like she was asleep."
Preliminary investigations by Bangkok's disaster mitigation department suggest the fire could have been caused by an electrical short circuit in an air conditioner, though no official cause has been given.
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Was Great White playing a gig there?
Thailand?......................
Was it a Rogue Island ?
My first thought too. HORRIBLE though.
THAILAND!?
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