(31 Mar 2025)
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Bangkok – 31 March 2025
1. Various of site of collapsed building
2. Wide of Bangkok governor, Chadchart Sittipunt, on the scene
3. Rescuers at the scene
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chadchart Sittipunt, Bangkok Governor:
“It is difficult to define how much hope, but we have hope and that is important that we carry on. Yeah we move on, everything, but we can’t measure how much hope we have. We still have high hope. I think we will find some people who survived inside.”
(Reporter: "Has there been any detection of life in the last few hours?’")
“Last night there was some detection but maybe it was a machine error or it was true, we cannot really identify. But even one life saved it is worth all the effort so I think we have to move on, carry on.”
(Reporter: "How soon do you hope to have an answer as to how this happened?")
“I am not the head of investigation. I think the Department of Civil Work is doing all this. I think, in that matter, not an urgency.”
(Reporter: "Is it important to the people of Bangkok?")
“Important in the long term and middle term. I think we need to find the root cause so at least we can have some lesson learned and improvements on the building regulations. But not today, not at this hour, continue this investigation, but finally we will have some result that will improve the safety of Bangkok.”
5. Various of workers at site, collapsed building
STORYLINE:
Bangkok’s governor said Monday it was important to find out why the State Audit Office building collapsed during last week’s earthquake in order to improve future safety in the city.
Chdchart Sittipunt was speaking on an early morning visit to the site where heavy digging equipment continues to tear apart tons of rubble in the search for any possible survivors.
“Important in the long term and middle term. I think we need to find the root cause so at least we can have some lesson learned and improvements on the building regulations,” he said.
But he said the focus now must remain on finding any possible survivors.
“Last night there was some detection but maybe it was a machine error or it was true, we cannot rally identify. But even one life saved it is worth all the effort so I think we have to move on, carry on,” he said.
As of Sunday evening, 76 people were still unaccounted for at the site, according to the local authorities.
A total of 18 people have been reported killed by the 7.7 magnitude quake in Thailand so far.
In Myanmar, the death toll reached more than 1,600 people and left countless others buried.
AP Video by Jerry Harmer
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