Thailand: A bus carrying workers and migrants burned down, 20 people were killed

A bus carrying migrant workers in western Thailand caught fire this morning, killing 20 people, Thai police said.

A fire on a double-decker bus that was on its way to a factory in an industrial zone near Bangkok was reported to the police around 1.30:XNUMX a.m. in Tak province in the west of Thailand near the border with Myanmar.

Local media reported that the workers were originally from Myanmar.

Police officials stated that 27 people managed to escape from the fire, but that one of them suffered severe burns.

The cause of the fire is unknown.

According to officials, the driver reported that the fire started in the middle part of the bus and soon spread.

Earlier on March 21, at least 18 people were killed and more than 30 injured when the driver of a chartered tour bus lost control of the vehicle on a steep bend in the road in northeastern Thailand and overturned.

The AP Agency reminds that the day after that accident, the school excursion bus overturned on a wet road from the rain and that 39 people were injured.

According to statistics from the World Health Organization, Thailand ranks second after Libya in the number of traffic deaths.