Around 25 individuals are feared useless after a faculty bus carrying college students and lecturers on a discipline journey caught hearth close to Bangkok on Tuesday, with 16 others hospitalized, in line with Thai authorities.
Police couldn’t instantly verify the variety of accidents or deaths however Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul informed reporters about 25 folks had been believed to have been killed, with out elaborating.
Sixteen college students and three lecturers had been despatched to a hospital for remedy, Transport Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit stated, including the causes of the incident had been nonetheless being investigated.
Early photos posted on social media and carried by native news retailers confirmed thick gray smoke pouring out of the bus, elements of which had been nonetheless on hearth.
The blaze was later extinguished. A Reuters photographer noticed hearth vans, police and rescue automobiles parked across the blackened car, with a cluster of firefighters on the entrance.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra stated the scholars had been on a discipline journey from the province of Uthai Thani, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital.
“As a mother, I would like to express my deepest condolences to the families,” she stated in a social media put up on X.
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