Fire at Bangkok's Chatuchak market kills over 1,000 animals

📆 11/6/2024 5:51 PM
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BANGKOK: More than 1,000 exotic animals, reptiles and pets perished in a sprawling market in Bangkok after a fire ripped through over a hundred shops in the early hours of Tuesday, authorities said.

A firefighter carries injured chickens in a cage following a fire at a pet market next to Chatuchak market in Bangkok on Jun 11, 2024.

Firefighters and rescue workers on Tuesday picked through carcasses, mangled cages, blackened walls and collapsed metal shop roofs. A medic treated a chicken near the smouldering ruins of one row of shops, according to a Reuters witness. The fire was extinguished by 6am and the cause is being investigated, according to Tivakorn Prongseng, a police inspector investigating the case. There were no reports of human casualties, he said.

A snake shop owner moves boxes full of snakes rescued from his shop following a fire at a pet market next to Chatuchak market in Bangkok on Jun 11, 2024.

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