Bangkok (VNA) - Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt recently admitted that ongoing rescue operations have detected no further signs of life beneath the rubble of the collapsed state audit office building in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district.
The collapse occurred on March 28 following the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar, according to The Nation.
“When we were trying to rescue survivors, it was like a sprint. Now, the operation must continue steadily, like a marathon,” he said.
The debris field has been divided into Zones A, B, C, and D to coordinate search efforts more effectively. Chadchart noted that the rescue operation had entered its tenth day, with teams now relying more on heavy machinery to remove large concrete slabs.
Heavy equipment has been deployed via the front entrance and through the State Railway land adjacent to the site, allowing teams to reach the top of the rubble and begin gradual removal of large debris.
Earlier, the Thai authorities said that death toll from the earthquake rose to 24. Among the victims, 17 people were confirmed dead in the collapse of the high-rise building under construction in Bangkok while 77 others remain missing./.
March 28 earthquake to cause serious economic losses to Thailand: Experts
Yunyong Thaicharoen, chief economist at the SCB Economic Intelligence Centre (EIC), a research unit of Siam Commercial Bank, was quoted by the Thai media as saying that the disaster is forecast to result in an economic loss of around 30 billion THB over the next 3-4 months.
