Bangkok: One tourist was died and 20 others injured when a fire broke out at a large hotel in central Bangkok popular with foreign tourists, officials said Friday.
The blaze is believed to have started in a meeting room on the fifth floor of the 221-room Grand Park Avenue Hotel off the Sukhumvit Road, with smoke spreading to guest rooms.
Emergency services said about 20 people suffered smoke inhalation in the fire, which was later extinguished.
“A female foreign tourist died from suffocation,” said Suvinai Busrakamwongs, director of the Kluay Nam Thai hospital. Her nationality was unknown because she had no identification.
“Another male Western tourist is in intensive care,” Suvinai said.
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