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FOUR DIE IN WORST PHUKET FIRE IN TWO YEARS Eakkapop Thongtub and Darawan Na Nakhon editor@classactmedia.co.th
our people died and a fifth was injured after a furniture shop on Srisutthat Rd in Phuket Town caught fire at 2am on Saturday (August 2). Among those who died, during the 90 minutes it took for fire-fighters to
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put out the inferno at the Chokchai Furniture Store, was a 10-year-old boy. All the four people who died were found trapped on the top floor of the three-storey building, firefighters said. They were named as Mongkon Ruanchai, 43, and his wife Nutjaree Saengprakone, 43, 10-year-old Teerawut Ruanchai, the couple’s adopted son, and Chatchaya Kanpat, 59, a
friend of the furniture store’s owner. The owner, Janhom Jakkaew, 51, survived by jumping from a secondfloor window of the building. She broke a leg and an arm on landing and was taken to Bangkok Hospital Phuket. Her shouts alerted a nearby policeman, who raised the alarm and called for the fire engines. Rofia Ninsawit, 44, Ms Janhom’s sister-in-law, told police that Ms Jan-
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hom told her the fire broke out when everyone was asleep. Mrs Janhom was woken by the smell of smoke and called to the others to warn them, telling them to get out of the building. Believing the others were following her, she smashed a window on the second floor and jumped. But it was probably already too late for the four people sleeping on the top floor of the building.
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