20140828 Thailand Fire hits Poipet market
Thailand Aug 27 2014 “Stores”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Fire hits Poipet market
Updated: 2014-08-29-01:00
A fire broke out at a Poipet border market adjacent to Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district yesterday morning, destroying a stock of second-hand clothes.
A private school, Bridgeton, located nearby was forced to suspend classes for about an hour. Some 500 students were evacuated.
The fire, which destroyed some 500 sacks of second-hand clothes, caused damages worth about Bt5 million.
The market, in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchay province, is about 2 kilometres from the Thai border and the blaze was so strong that firetrucks had been called in from Sa Kaew province.
It was difficult to extinguish the fire because the market is in the middle of a dense residential community.
Websource：The Nation
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