Hat Yai shop fire causes Bt100m in damage
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Fire ravaged a Buddhist monk's shop, which sold fireworks among other items, in downtown Songkhla's Hat Yai district yesterday.
Twelve people were reported hurt and eight rooms of the seven-storey commercial building damaged.
Hat Yai Municipality deputy mayor Samrit Boonrat said the Chao Chai Porn shop caught fire at about 11.30am.
Although a dozen people were hurt, at press time only two had been admitted to Rat Yindee Hospital. The cause of the fire was yet to be determined.
Songkhla governor Kritsada Boonrat said it took three hours to put out the fire. Damage was initially estimated at Bt100 million and he said authorities would bring in an engineer to inspect the structural damage.
