BANGKOK (AP) — A bus sporting younger scholars with their lecturers stuck hearth in suburban Bangkok on Tuesday, with greater than 20 of the ones on board feared lifeless, officers and rescuers mentioned.The bus used to be sporting 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a faculty commute in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, Shipping Minister Suriya Jungrungruengkit advised journalists on the scene. Movies posted on social media confirmed all the bus engulfed in hearth with massive plumes of black smoke pouring out because it stood at the facet of the street. Our bodies have been nonetheless within the bus hours after the hearth.The scholars at the bus have been reported to be in basic and junior highschool.Inside Minister Anutin Charnvirakul mentioned officers may no longer but verify the choice of fatalities as a result of that they had no longer completed investigating the scene. He mentioned the driving force survived however seemed to have fled and may no longer but be discovered.
Anutin had previous mentioned 25 have been feared lifeless, however Piyalak Thinkaew, a rescuer of the Ruamkatanyu Basis advised journalists later that two extra survivors were discovered, lowering the choice of the ones nonetheless lacking to 23 — 3 lecturers and 20 scholars.
Rescuers and officers have been ready to get entry to the bus hours after the hearth used to be put out. Piyalak mentioned they have been nonetheless not able to spot the our bodies, maximum of which have been discovered within the heart and again seats, main them to suppose that the hearth began on the entrance of the bus.
Thai media studies and rescuers mentioned the bus used to be heading to Nonthaburi when the hearth began round midday in Pathum Thani province, a northern suburb of the capital.A rescuer on the scene advised Suriya that the hearth most likely began after one of the crucial tires exploded and the car scraped in opposition to a street barrier.High Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra introduced her condolences in a put up on social media platform X, announcing the federal government would maintain clinical bills and compensate the sufferers’ households.The patRangsit Health facility, which is positioned close to the scene, mentioned in a information convention that it admitted 3 younger ladies, one in every of whom suffered burns to the face, mouth and eye.
