(8 Oct 2024)
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Lan Sak, Uthai Thani Province, Thailand – 8 October 2024
1. Various of procession of monks, officials, victims’ families and coffins from temple to cremation site
2. Various of mourners
3. Coffin being taken into cremation furnace
4. Various of smoke coming from cremation furnaces
STORYLINE:
A cremation ceremony for the victims of last week’s bus fire in Thailand that killed 23 young students and teachers on a school trip took place on Tuesday in Uthai Thani province.
A large cremation site had been built near Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam, the temple in Lan Sak town that houses the school attended by the victims.
A procession led by monks brought the deceased in coffins and their grieving relatives to cremation furnaces.
Mourners were seen in tears as the coffins were placed inside the furnaces.
Police in Thailand last week said they have filed criminal charges against a bus operator in connection with the bus fire, as investigations suggested a gas leak may have caused the blaze.
The owner of the bus, identified by police only by her first name, Panissara, was charged with negligence causing death, according to a statement from Pathum Thani Provincial Police.
Public outrage over the tragedy has put officials under scrutiny over safety standards after information emerged that the bus had passed an inspection about four months before the fire.
Uthai Thani MP Chada Thaised, who was in attendance at the funeral, said that families of the victims would receive "lots of financial support."
Six teachers and 39 elementary and junior high school students were on the bus when it caught fire Tuesday on a highway in Pathum Thani, a northern suburb of Bangkok.
It spread so quickly that only 22 people were able to escape.
AP Video shot by Tian Macleod Ji
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