{"id":129375,"date":"2026-07-14T18:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=129375"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:55:35","slug":"families-claim-bodies-as-bangkok-fire-toll-rises-to-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/129375\/","title":{"rendered":"Families claim bodies as Bangkok fire toll rises to 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Web desk(National Times)- Grieving relatives of the victims of a huge Bangkok\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2014954\">bar fire<\/a>\u00a0claimed their bodies on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 30, even as others held out hope that missing loved ones were alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flames tore through the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar and restaurant in the Thai capital late on Sunday evening during a live music performance, sending people fleeing, several with their clothing ablaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-seven people were declared dead in the early hours of Monday, with another succumbing to their injuries later that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Tuesday morning, Bangkok\u2019s Chatuchak district office put the death toll at 30, with 75 people injured \u2014 24 in critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relatives of the dead gathered at Police General Hospital on Tuesday to claim the bodies of their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the rear of the hospital, grey coffins with gilded bas-reliefs emerged before the cameras of dozens of journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some coffins were loaded into the back of ambulances to be transported to the home provinces of the deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside one, a man held an incense stick over a coffin. In another, a grey-haired woman laid one hand atop the coffin while she dabbed her eyes with a tissue.A relative (R) mourns next to a coffin bearing the remains of a victim killed in a bar fire, inside a hearse at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok on July 14, 2026. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuttakarn \u201cMint\u201d Sevoy, 30, came for her childhood friend Top Sarobol who, like many killed on Sunday night, is believed to have died from smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuttakarn told&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>&nbsp;the family consider themselves \u201cfortunate that they were able to verify his identity accurately because his body wasn\u2019t burned to the point of being unidentifiable\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the family, particularly his grandmother, was struggling with his loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe kept saying that it should have been him to cremate her\u2026 (he) should be the one attending her funeral, not her coming to pick up her grandson\u2019s body like this,\u201d Nuttakarn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jarunee Phosawad came from Roi Et in eastern Thailand to oversee the cremation of her cousin Kochaporn Sotharat\u2019s body and the return home of her ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShe was a joyful person,\u201d the 46-year-old told&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>, adding: \u201cI felt cold when I heard she was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kochaporn was a single mother of a daughter who also came to Bangkok to do a DNA test, Jarunee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI do not know how she will live after this; she had only her mum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/2015379\/families-claim-bodies-as-bangkok-fire-toll-rises-to-30#holding-onto-hope\"><\/a>\u2018Holding onto hope\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For others, there is still hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Booyaporn Sermsiri was at the hospital searching for her 25-year-old daughter, Jarawee \u201cCartoon\u201d Sermsiri, who remains missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince we haven\u2019t found her yet, we can only wait. We are holding onto hope,\u201d she told&nbsp;<em>AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said Cartoon\u2019s friend had called her early on Monday morning, saying there had been a fire and she couldn\u2019t reach her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Booyaporn, 51, said she had given a DNA sample and was told by police the result could come back later Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am praying. Praying that she is alright,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forensic police have been scouring the wreckage as authorities seek to establish how the fire started and why it was so deadly, looking at a possible electrical fault and also whether emergency exits were blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several witnesses have said they saw smoke inside before midnight and the lights went out, followed by an explosion and intense flames that sent patrons fleeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Relatives of the victims and those who survived the fire visited the blackened bar on Tuesday, some laying garlands and praying for the dead.Relatives of a victim of a bar fire pray in front of the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar in Bangkok on July 14, 2026. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Usa Tadsri, 40, made it out alive, but two friends who were with her died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Namtip Tubsook and her husband Suwitcha Sirililung left behind two children, aged four and five, who are now being cared for by their grandmother, Nid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were only looking to enjoy ourselves, but we ended up trapped in a disaster,\u201d Usa told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web desk(National Times)- Grieving relatives of the victims of a huge Bangkok\u00a0bar fire\u00a0claimed their bodies on Tuesday as the death toll rose to 30, even as others held out hope that missing loved ones were alive. 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