Organisers charged after firework fatalities

Huai Mek superintendent Pol Col Sukrit Khorruamkit said former Kalasin Provincial Administrative Organisation member Prakan Oodsa and fellow event-organising committee members Wichai Janwilai and Kalawek Thalad had testified to police and heard the charges against them.
The rocket-maker and lighter Supoj Samart, whose wife Boonkeng died in the incident, has not seen police yet pending the funeral of his wife.
An informed source reported the fateful bungfai had been prepared for lighting at another event in Roi Et’s Panom Prai district, but the organisers didn’t allow it because the bungfai’s tail was not centred and thus substandard. Its owners applied to launch it at the Kham Yai event instead, leading to the tragedy.