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The only tower that collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Thailand was being built by the Chinese

2025-03-29 22:06:25Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The only tower that collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Thailand was
Collapsed tower in Bangkok

A Chinese-backed contractor is facing an investigation into the collapse of a 33-story skyscraper in Bangkok in Friday's earthquake.

The unfinished building's glass facade collapsed to the ground in a plume of smoke and dust, trapping dozens of people in the rubble, when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, about 800 miles from the Thai capital.

But despite the megacity's skyline being dotted with cranes, no other construction site reported similar collapses.

Eight bodies have so far been pulled from the skyscraper's rubble, with around 50 people missing.

“Something was definitely wrong,” Suchatchavese Suwansawas, a civil engineer and politician from the Democratic Party, told The Telegraph.

"You see all the other buildings, even the high-rise buildings under construction, they are safe. So either the design was wrong or the construction was wrong, but it's too soon to draw conclusions," he said.

After visiting the site on Saturday, Anutin Charnvirakul, Thailand's deputy prime minister, said the country's government would launch a rapid investigation to better understand the disaster.

"I am appointing the investigative committee. I have given them seven days to report on what is happening and what caused the crash," he told reporters.

The collapsed building belonged to the national audit office and had been under construction for three years, at a reported cost of more than two billion Thai baht (around 50 million euros).

The project was a joint venture between Italo-Thai Development Plc and China Railway Number 10 (Thailand) Ltd, according to The Nation, a local news outlet.


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