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[3 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 2,974 views]
Santika tragedy: Another example of lacking ‘preventive measures’?

By Supi Caliri
 

Photo by: Thai News Agency (TNA)

 

The New Year blaze at Santika Club in a sparkling nightlife centre of inner Bangkok which caused over 60 death and some 200 injured may be the latest tragic incident but no one was certain if it would be the last example of lacking “sufficient” preventive measures to prevent a public disaster in Thailand.
After the incident which broke out early Thursday morning, a long list of insufficient measures on fire safety in the nightclub has been indentified by concerned government authorities, despite knowing …