Firefighters try to douse the flames from a lorry carrying 125 natural gas cylinders on Theparat Highway in Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan, on Monday night. (Photo by Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)SAMUT PRAKAN: A container lorry carrying more than 100 natural gas cylinders caught fire and exploded after a tyre burst under the elevated Bang Na-Bang Pakong expressway on Monday night. The conflagration occurred on the inbound side at the 15th kilometre marker of Theparat (Bang Na-Trat) Highway in Bang Phli district at about 8pm on Monday. Lorry driver Chamlong Chanthamanee, 32, said he was hauling 125 cylinders of natural gas from a plant in Bang Bo district, Samut Prakan to deliver them to gas filling stations on Nuanchan Road in Bangkok. As he was driving along Theparat Highway, a tyre burst and sparks from the wheel scraping along the road surface set fire to other tyres.

Source: Bangkok Post June 04, 2019 05:37 UTC