BANGKOK — A small but deadly fire at one of the Thai capital’s biggest shopping malls may have started in a basement room before spreading to an eighth-floor document room because of a bad vent, officials in Bangkok said Thursday. They said smoke and burning matter from that blaze that was supposed to vent though a chimney may have backed up and started the upstairs fire. The mall’s operating company, Central Pattana, said the two dead were employees who fell from windows trying to escape the smoke and flames. The CentralWorld mall was closed Thursday for a cleanup but due to reopen Friday. A shopper told The Associated Press on Wednesday night that he had heard alarms and announcements to leave the building.

Source: National Post April 11, 2019 12:18 UTC