(28 Mar 2025)
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Bangkok, Thailand – 28 March 2025
1. Pan of crowd waiting on the sidewalk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Fraser Morton, tourist:
"Yeah. So I was in this building right behind me. It was a shopping mall and I was there to buy camera equipment. And all of a sudden the whole building just began to move. Immediately there was screaming, there was a lot of panic. I just started walking calmly at first, but then the building started really moving. And yeah, a lot of screaming, a lot of panic. People running the wrong way down the escalators, like lots of banging and crashing inside the mall. I got outside and then looked up at the building, that one there, and this whole building was just moving. Dust and debris – it was pretty intense."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Vincent, tourist from England:
"I was sitting in a bar and restaurant on Soi 22 off Sukhumvit, just talking to a stranger there, and the next thing, because it was a small bar, we just felt a movement, you know, there was no, there was no actual, nothing moving in the building. But the next thing, everybody came on the street. So there was a lot of screaming and panicking, which obviously made it a lot worse. I went on the street and I walked up and a building equivalent to this one here, was actually, you could see it compared to the next one, it was actually moving, it was swaying and all the water was coming from the top of the, yeah. And that’s when I, that’s when it got me, you know."
4. Pan of crowd waiting on the sidewalk
STORYLINE:
Tourists in Thailand’s capital were caught up in chaos on Friday following a strong earthquake which rocked the region causing "screaming and panic" inside a shopping mall and on the streets as people evacuated.
Fraser Morton, a tourist who was in one of Bangkok’s many malls shopping for camera equipment, said when the building began to move there was panic and people were "running the wrong way down the escalators."
Paul Vincent, a tourist from England, saw water coming from the top of one tall building and other buildings swaying. "There was a lot of screaming and panicking," he said.
The midday temblor was followed by a strong 6.4 magnitude aftershock, and people in Bangkok evacuated from their buildings were cautioned to stay outside in case there were more.
A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed, police said, and possible casualties are not yet known.
Police told The Associated Press they were responding to the scene near Bangkok’s popular Chatuchak Market, and had no immediate information on how many workers were on the site at the time of the collapse.
The magnitude 7.7 earthquake caused hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate from their homes and workplaces.
The U.S. Geological Survey and Germany’s GFZ center for geosciences said the earthquake was a shallow 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), with an epicenter in Myanmar, according to preliminary reports.
The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.
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