Fire at luxury resort on Koh Kut: Police investigation begins

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INN published several pictures of the fire that devastated a luxury resort on the holiday island of Koh Kut in Trat province eastern Thailand on Sunday morning. 

 

It appears to have started in bungalow # 163. 

 

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The resort is run by Soneva Kiri Resort, based at an office in the upper Sukhumvit area of Bangkok.

 

Koh Kut police and investigators were on the scene yesterday trying to determine what happened. 

 

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About thirteen people were at the resort and one person was injured.

 

Claims have been made that the resort did not have proper fire systems. 

 

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[hotchilli]

Wooden construction, no firefighting equipment or systems... what could possibly go wrong.

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Wooden construction, no firefighting equipment or systems... what could possibly go wrong.

 

Termites?

[Bigstef]

Many options, rodent, cigarette, drug addict, electrical problem..

 

[impulse]

8 minutes ago, Bigstef said:

Many options, rodent, cigarette, drug addict, electrical problem..

 

With rates starting at 1340 per night, those are some pampered drug addicts. 

 

That's $1,340 USD.  Not baht.  Going up to $13,000 a night.

 

https://soneva.com/resorts/soneva-kiri/villas/

 

 

[bobandyson]

Some amorous gosh-darned-dash-blasted-flippity-heck annoying fire-flies causing a little mischief were they?