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Party-goers recall blackout, panic in Bangkok blaze

China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-03 07:58

Mourning relatives and shocked survivors on Friday offered prayers and recalled the horror of a New Year fire at a packed Bangkok club, as police tried to piece together how nearly 60 people died.

Harrowing accounts emerged of the scenes of panic and fear inside the Santika nightclub in the Thai capital's popular Ekkamai district, where more than 200 people were also injured in the blaze early on Thursday.

Mourners - some with victims' coffins in the back of trucks - trickled to the club to pray and to give offerings to the dead, while scores of people, some of them foreigners, remained in hospital after the tragic night.

Party-goers recall blackout, panic in Bangkok blaze

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