Police said the fire started at the 6 units of shophouses on Ratchaprarop Road near Chaimongkol market at 5.10am. 
Firefighters had a tough time reaching the site as the shophouses are located on a small soi, but they managed to put out the blaze by 7am. 
Police said the fire started on the first floor of a garment shop and spread to other floors and units very fast. 
Thick smoke prompted police to close traffic from the Ratchaprarop intersection to the Pratunam intersection.

Fire damages shophouses in Bangkok

Residents of a row of three-storeyed shophouses near a market in Bangkok’s Ratchathewee district were evacuated safely after a fire spread through their houses on Saturday morning, police said.