Twenty Myanmar migrant workers died early today as fire tore through a bus taking them from a Thai border town to Bangkok, officials said.
It was not immediately clear how the blaze started on the bus — one of four travelling together to the Thai capital.
But television footage showed a bus destroyed by fire which trapped many passengers inside. “The death toll is now 20, with three people injured,” Pollawat Sapsongsuk of the Tak Disaster Prevention and Mitigation centre told AFP.
Kittisak Boonchan, a rescue worker in Tak province, told reporters there were 47 people on the bus. The accident took place at 1:25 am in the northwestern province of Tak which borders Myanmar, a source of much of Thailand’s migrant labour force.
