"Bangkok fire"

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration says it’s fully prepared if fires break out during Loy Krathong, when candles and fireworks will be everywhere in the city.

A 18-year-old teenager was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation on Saturday after a fire broke out at a shophouse in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district.

Three family members were killed in a fire that engulfed a house in Bangkok’s Yannawa district early on Saturday.

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Governor Aswin Kwanmuang has ordered all 35 BMA fire stations and 12 substations to be on alert during the Chinese New Year.

POLICE say lit and unattended incense or a short circuit by a fan were possible causes of a fire on Friday, which broke out in a residential building in Bangkok's Yannawa district, an informed source reported yesterday.