Building Collapses On Beach Road Pattaya Injuring 3 Food Sellers
BUILDING COLLAPSES ON BEACH ROAD PATTAYA INJURING 3 FOOD SELLERS
The ceiling of the 2nd floor of a building over 20 years old collapsed on top of a small street side restaurant injuring 3 people. One of them sustained severe skull injuries, and broken legs and arms. The Director of Building Permits for Pattaya divulged that the building has been extended at some point without proper authorization.
Pattaya, 10th of November 2009 (PDN): At 14.30 today, Police Lieutenant General Chonphat Nualaks from Pattaya Police Station, received a report that an accident had occurred in a 10-floor building located right next to Central Festival, Pattaya Beach Road. After the report, Pol. Lt. Gen. Chonphat Nualaks along with Pol. Lt. Gen. Sutham Charsrithong and the Sawang Boriboon Rescue team, rushed to the scene of the incident. Mr. Pichet Uthai Watananon, the Director for Building Permit in Pattaya also attended the scene.
When they arrived, they found 3 wounded food sellers, who had been trapped under the cement ceiling of the 2nd floor of the building after it had collapsed. The Sawang Boriboon Rescue Team then quickly took them to the nearest hospitals. Two of the injured went to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital and the other to the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.
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Mr. Pichet Uthai Watananon, Director of Building Permits for Pattaya, came to investigate on the scene along with officials of the Common Grounds of Pattaya. They came to retrieve the remains of the mess and to close the immediate area from the public, due to safety concerns with the many gas bottles that fallen as a result of the collapse. The immediate area has now been secured.
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Mr. Pichet divulged that the building was over 20 years old and is presently under a court case. Pattaya City investigated on the building to find out if it was still conforming to the legislation it was under. They found out that the part of the building that collapsed, an extension of the 2nd floor, was not conforming to the legislation and had been extended without the proper authorization.
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Ms. Sumalee Hongsa, age 52 of the Pattaya area, was severely wounded with skull fractures and a broken left leg and right arm. Miss Suay (last name unknown), age 23, from Burma, suffered only minor injuries and Ms. Samran Totkeow, age 40, from Surin, also sustained only minor injuries. All three women were involved with selling food under the side of the building that collapsed.
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