Fire damages Poipet border market
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Fire broke out at Poipet border market adjacent to Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district Thursday morning, destroying a stock of secondhand clothes kept the back of the market.
A private school; Bridgeton, situated near the market was forced to suspend classes for about an hour. Some 500 students were evacuated. About 500 sacks of secondhand clothes were burnt and the damage was estimated to be about Bt5 million.
The market in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchay province is about two kilometers from the border.
Cambodia asked for water trucks from the Sa Kaew authorities. They found it difficult to extinguish the fire because the market is in the middle of a dense residential community.
