Hotel fire injures five in Bangkok
A 10-story hotel caught fire in Bangkok on Friday morning, injuring five people and forcing some two dozen guests to be rescued from the rooftop.
Police said the fire broke out in the third-floor restaurant of the Sriphraya Tower Inn. It burned for about 30 minutes before firefighters managed to extinguished it. Five people - including three African tourists and two Thai women - suffered smoke inhalation and were brought to the hospital. About 100 other guests fled the blaze, including 22 who were evacuated by crane from the hotel roof, police said. The fire comes about 12 hours after a blaze destroyed about 100 homes in a slum community opposite Queen Sirikit Convention Centre on Rama IV Road. Dozens of residents were still scouring the site Friday, searching for their possessions. The cause of that fire was also under investigation. The Nation
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