BANGKOK — A fire on a double-decker bus carrying migrant workers killed 20 people early Friday, a week after 18 people died in another bus accident that showed the continuing dangers of Thailand’s roads. The fire was reported to police around 1:30 a.m. in Tak province in western Thailand along the border with Myanmar. A survivor, Pa Pa Hlaing, described the accident by phone to The Associated Press. Some people’s passports were gone too,” said Pa Pa Hlaing, who was in a police station in Tak on Friday afternoon. Thailand has the second-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the world after Libya, according to World Health Organization statistics.

Source: National Post March 30, 2018 03:12 UTC