Contact Admin. Thirteen Myanmar nationals and a Thai driver were killed after being trapped inside a van engulfed in flames following a car crash in Muang district Friday early morning. Upon arrival, the charred wreckage of the van with a Bangkok licence plate was 10m away from a wheeled lorry loaded with rice with a Nakhon Sawan licence plate.
The lorry was parked in the middle of the road. The back of the vehicle also bears a scratch due to the accident. An initial investigation indicated only that the 13 Myanmar migrants boarded the van driven by a Thai man from Mae Sot district in Tak to Bangkok. Soonthorn Fakthong, a year-old lorry driver, said he was on his way to deliver rice to Saraburi. All bodies were taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for a post-mortem examination.
After their identities are determined, the bodies will be returned to their families for traditional funeral ceremonies. The Department of Airports is opposed to Airports of Thailand's plan take over Krabi airport, which is its main source of income. The opposition will only have one day to grill Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on his incomplete oath-taking during a House session early next month.
Palang Pracharath Party MP for Bangkok Jira Jenjaka has asked the Department of Special Investigation to examine alleged irregularities in the issuance of a land ownership document for a condominium project in Phuket. A van catches fire after hitting a lorry in Sing Buri in the early hours of Friday. Thirteen Myanmar people and the Thai driver were killed. Keywords Van Sing Buri Myanmar fire blaze.
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