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Elderly woman dies in market rowhouse fire

Firemen douse the gutted building with water after a fire raged through a row of two-storey wooden houses at Muang Pak community market in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Thong Chai district on Sunday afternoon. An elderly woman died in the fire. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: An elderly woman died in a fire that destroyed a row of two-storey wooden houses at a community market of Pak Thong Chai district on Sunday afternoon.

Pol Col Chanat Kawikhaochalad, the Pak Thong Chai police chief, said the fire started about 4pm in one of the rowhouses in the Muang Pak community market on Si Polrat road in Muang Pak Municipality.

About 50 fire engines and crews from the municipality and nearby districts battled the blaze, which…

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