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Not less than 12 individuals have been killed and 121 injured in an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand.
The incident – within the village of Mu No – diminished the warehouse and surrounding space to rubble, drone footage confirmed.
Not less than two of the victims have been kids, together with a four-year-old boy and a eight-month-old child woman, in keeping with state run Radio Thailand.
Over 100 homes have been additionally broken.
The reason for the explosion is beneath investigation however preliminary experiences recommended there had been a welding error.
Police plan to cost the proprietor of the warehouse with a prison offense for “inflicting the explosion and leading to individuals’s deaths and accidents and property harm,” Narathiwat Provincial Police Commander Anuruth Imarb stated in a press convention on Sunday.
“I’ve nothing left,” stated Samsueya Chuenchompoo, whose home was destroyed, in keeping with the AFP information company.
“I don’t actually have a roof over my head now. When there was a flood, I nonetheless may survive however now I actually don’t have anything left.”
Fireworks accidents aren’t unusual in Thailand. A number of individuals have been reportedly injured in one other blast within the northern metropolis of Chiang Mai earlier this week.