At least five people were killed and seven seriously injured in the collapse of a residential building in Thawi Watthana district of Bangkok, according to the Bangkok Post. Among the deceased are four firefighters and a civilian. Emergency services were on the property attending to a fire, but an hour after it broke out, the building collapsed.

The first responders were firefighters from the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and rescue volunteers from the Poh Teck Tung Foundation, some of whom were trapped in the rubble.

5 people, 4 of whom are rescue volunteers, were killed in a fire at a large house in western Bangkok. The 3-storey building was on a 50-sqw plot in Thawi-Watthana district. The house later collapsed after the fire raged through it for an hour from 6am on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/82qwBscayn

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At the time of the collapse inside the building, rescuers were trying to save the building’s inhabitants. Rescue services had not been able to rescue the victims given the fragile state of the rest of the building. Twelve hours after the collapse, local authorities consider it is unlikely there will be any survivors, because the temperature under the rubble exceeds 100ºC.

-Thailand News (TN)