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A drug addict got away after shooting his father in the leg with a harpoon as he was trying to let police officers in.

As many as 80 Thais and foreigners quarantined at a hotel in Samut Prakan’s Bang Phli district ran for their lives on Wednesday night after a fire broke out in the hotel’s storage room.

A room at Din Daeng flat burst in flames around midnight on Sunday. No serious injuries were reported, meanwhile, police are suspecting if the cause of the fire was from a gas tank explosion or the protestor’s fire bomb as there have been daily gatherings of the Thalu Gas group in the area.

A man burned down his own house in Kalasin province on Friday after his sister refused to give him money.

A man reportedly set a residential building in Pathum Thani province on fire on Saturday and remained at the scene, laughing and smiling.

An explosion caused a fire at The Nashaa Club, a famous restaurant and night spot located on Walking Street in Pattaya City on Sunday night.

Accidents can happen anywhere, just like the one that took place on Thursday at a laundromat in Chaiyaphum.

The company said the fire had been brought under control at 4:30 p.m. local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday, about one hour and a half after it broke out at the E-Ku A2 platform of the Ku-A Process Center, part of the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oil field, in Campeche Sound.

Wednesday morning brought shock and dismay to a 70-year-old Nong Khai resident when her house went up in flames just as she was returning from giving alms to monks.

The Dixie Fire that has forced thousands from their homes in Northern California and destroyed a historic town grew into the second-largest blaze in state history on Sunday, officials said, as the wildfire mushroomed to more than 463,000 acres.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yogi and Carolyn Vindum were still asleep late last year when their Tesla Model S beamed an alert that charging was interrupted.

The fire at a 100-year-old waterfront market in Ban Phaeo district of Samut Sakhon province on Saturday was put out with help from officials and locals.