January 5, 2009
BANGKOK (AFP) - One person was killed and 41 were injured in a blaze at a Bangkok shopping mall, just days after a fire at a nightclub in the Thai capital killed scores of people, police said Monday.
Firefighters rescued dozens of people from the nine-storey Sua Pa Plaza in the city centre after the fire broke out on Sunday night, said police Lieutenant Colonel Maetee Thanak.
The blaze took around two hours to put out and rescuers afterwards found one person dead inside the building. The injured suffered minor burns and smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire was not immediately clear but it appeared to have started in an area where there are several mobile phone shops, police said.
Thai police said on Sunday they will press charges against one of the main shareholders of Bangkok's Santika nightclub, where at least 62 revellers died on New Year's Day after a fire tore through the upscale venue.
