Authorities this morning were investigating the cause of a huge blaze in Chinatown which killed two people and injured a half dozen others.
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority was investigating in detail what caused Sunday’s fire that broke out at a home in the historic Sampeng area of Bangkok’s old town.
The fire started at around 11:20am in a three-story shophouse before quickly spreading to other nearby shophouses. It took about three hours for firefighters and a dozen fire trucks to extinguish the fire.
The blaze injured at least six people and killed two people at the scene: Jirapat Soommak, 52, and a Cambodian national only identified as Petchduan, 34. Both were employees at Ratchawong Rung Ruang, a shop that deals with paper and plastic materials.
The shop owner, Surachat Kittirudeekul, said his…