Bangkok bar fire death toll reaches 32; survivors seek justice and compensation

32 people killed and 70+ injured, with 15 in critical condition; survivors and families displaced and grieving, facing financial hardship.

Three days after fire swept through a Bangkok bar on a Sunday night, the living and the bereaved gathered at a police station to retrieve what remained of ordinary evenings — a phone, a handbag, a set of keys — and to ask questions that money could not answer. Thirty-two people died, most of them found in windowless bathrooms where they had run seeking safety and instead found no way out. The investigation into the Rong Beer Na Ladprao blaze continues, but for families who traveled far to claim their dead, the harder reckoning has already begun: how a night out became a final one, and who bear

Bangkok bar fire death toll reaches 32; survivors seek justice and compensation

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