Man dies in slum fireFire destroys a house in a slum community in Samut Prakan's Bang Phli district on Tuesday morning. (Photo: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan)SAMUT PRAKAN: A man was found dead inside a small house that burned down in a crowded slum community in Bang Phli district on Tuesday morning, police said. The fire started about 6am in a single-storey wooden house in a community beside an ice factory in tambon Bang Phli Yai, Pol Capt Saharat Thiamthai, a Bang Phli duty officer, said. A fire engine and crew from the Bang Phli Yai tambon administration organisation took about an hour to put out the blaze. The charred body of a man was found in the burned timbers.

Source: Bangkok Post June 16, 2020 04:07 UTC