
Site visitors accidents are frequent in Thailand notably throughout public holidays. (Representational)
Eleven folks, together with two youngsters, burned to dying in a passenger van crash in central Thailand over the Lunar New Yr vacation, police mentioned Monday.
Site visitors accidents are frequent within the kingdom, which has a infamous street security report, notably throughout busy public holidays.
The van carrying 12 folks was travelling from northeastern Amnat Charoen province to Bangkok when it veered off the freeway in central Nakhon Ratchasima province Saturday night time, mentioned Police Colonel Yingyos Poldej.
Yingyos instructed AFP that one man had been capable of climb out a window, however the different passengers had been trapped and died within the blaze.
The survivor, Thanachit Kingkaew, a 20-year-old pupil, mentioned he was asleep when he was jolted awake after listening to somebody scream.
“I awakened and the subsequent factor I do know, the van was the other way up. I did not see what occurred,” he mentioned.
“After the crash, the hearth began engulfing the entire van ranging from the again.”
“I began kicking the home windows and managed to crawl by a small gap,” he mentioned.
“Quickly after that, the van exploded.”
Nikhom Seaun, a volunteer with an area rescue group, mentioned the van exploded simply seconds after it was engulfed in flames.
“It took lower than 30 seconds for the hearth to eat the entire van,” he mentioned.
“I could not do something with the hearth extinguisher I had. The van then exploded three to 4 occasions.”
Yingyos, the police colonel, mentioned the van used each gasoline and compressed fuel however preliminary experiences discovered the fuel tank had not leaked.
“We expect that the hearth was attributable to the gasoline,” he mentioned, including they had been nonetheless investigating what precipitated the automobile to veer off the street.
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