Bangkok, The owner of a laundry shop describes the frightening moment when a demolished building collapsed and fled to his death. As for the foreman, he admitted to using a backhoe to pull up the actual building until it collapsed.
At 12:00 noon today (8 May) reporters reported on the atmosphere. Workers from a demolition company collect bottles. and cement fragments from buildings that collapsed during demolition until scattered all over the sidewalk and traffic surface at the entrance of Soi Charansanitwong 93, Bang Phlat District, Bangkok After the incident of 7 commercial buildings collapsing due to demolition by a contractor. Fortunately, there were no injuries. But some parts of the building collapsed and damaged nearby commercial buildings.
Mrs. Wilailak, 65 years old, laundry shop owner next to the collapsed building They took a news team up to survey the damage on the second floor of the store and found that the wall of the building that had collapsed was leaning over, causing a large hole in the
roof. And there are rubble and rubble. Lots of scraps of wood and zinc fell into the store. causing damage to customer clothing and all property The ground floor is the kitchen. There were a lot of cement fragments. Makes it impossible to use the kitchen Mrs. Vilailak revealed that she had lived in this house for 40 years and before that the contractor had not come to report anything. Until this morning at approximately 8:00 a.m., the contractor informed that the said commercial building would be demolished. to expropriate land to Bangkok To build a bridge across the Chao Phraya River Kiak Kai intersection area, phase 1, construction of an elevated road and road on the Thonburi side. This may cause noise to surrounding buildings. He therefore did not protest and acknowledged it, thinking that there would be protection to prevent danger because his own house was next to the demolished building. But in the end, I didn’t see that there was anything to block it. And while drying clothes on the first floor, sudden
ly I heard a loud noise. He knew immediately that it was definitely the sound of a building collapsing. But I didn’t think it would cause serious damage to my own house. Fortunately, there were only myself and my husband in the house. As for the child, he goes out to work. So he decided to run away. before seeing a cloud of smoke billowing out
Initially, he talked with the contractor because the house was damaged. Unable to live coupled with the fear that the building would collapse again The contractor will then allow himself to temporarily move to another place. As for the various damages, the contractor company will be responsible. But we haven’t discussed it in detail yet.
Mrs. Nonglak, 34 years old, is an employee of the chicken sausage shop in the next booth. Tell me that The said commercial building has been demolished for a long time. Heard the noise from the demolition all day. It is not known whether machines or people were used in the demolition. And is it correct? But no one ever came to inform
themselves that the building was being demolished. Until the incident He heard a loud noise. He quickly ran away to save his life first. He threw all his belongings out without any thought because he was very afraid that both the demolished building and the building he was in would collapse. Because it is an old building It has been under construction for a long time. If the building collapses You may be stuck inside the store.
On the other hand, the head of the contract company worker admit that while there was demolition Demolition workers used a backhoe to drill into the building to demolish three commercial buildings on the far left side and tried to pull the building to the right. which is free space But while the back-o leg is pulling There was a surge between the buildings. causing the building to tilt and collapse towards the left side instead Until it collapsed on people’s buildings Previously, a total of 14 nearby commercial buildings had been demolished, with engineers in control. And there has ne
ver been any danger in the past. But which building collapsed It’s a very old building. causing it to tilt and collapse. I didn’t think that something like this would happen.
Source: Thai News Agency
