Photo Gallery: '4 dead' in fire at tourist nightclub in Phuket
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Flames engulf the Tiger Disco on the southern resort island of Phuket, Thailand early on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when a fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
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Tourists walk past the burnt remains of a nightclub, (right), after a fire broke out in Phuket on Aug 17, 2012. A fire ripped through a tourist nightclub on the Thai island of Phuket on Aug 17, leaving four people dead and a dozen injured as party-goers fled the pre-dawn inferno, officials said. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Onlookers gather on a street outside the Tiger Disco after the fire was put out on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when an early morning fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
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Charity workers remove a body from the Tiger Disco after the fire was put out on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when an early morning fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
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Rescue workers carry the body of an unidentified tourist who was killed after a fire broke out at the Tiger Pub on Patong beach, in Phuket province, south of Bangkok on Aug 17, 2012. Four people died and at least 11 were injured in fire on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An unidentified French tourist who was injured in the Tiger Pub fire accident receives treatment at a hospital in Phuket province, south of Bangkok on Aug 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Flames engulf the Tiger Disco on the southern resort island of Phuket, Thailand early on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when a fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
Tourists walk past the burnt remains of a nightclub, (right), after a fire broke out in Phuket on Aug 17, 2012. A fire ripped through a tourist nightclub on the Thai island of Phuket on Aug 17, leaving four people dead and a dozen injured as party-goers fled the pre-dawn inferno, officials said. -- PHOTO: AFP
Onlookers gather on a street outside the Tiger Disco after the fire was put out on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when an early morning fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
Charity workers remove a body from the Tiger Disco after the fire was put out on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand on Friday, Aug 17, 2012. Four people died when an early morning fire swept through the nightclub frequented by foreign tourists, police said. -- PHOTO: AP
Rescue workers carry the body of an unidentified tourist who was killed after a fire broke out at the Tiger Pub on Patong beach, in Phuket province, south of Bangkok on Aug 17, 2012. Four people died and at least 11 were injured in fire on Friday. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An unidentified French tourist who was injured in the Tiger Pub fire accident receives treatment at a hospital in Phuket province, south of Bangkok on Aug 17, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
BANGKOK (AFP) - A fire ripped through a nightclub popular with foreign tourists in Thailand early on Friday, leaving at least four people dead and more than 20 others injured, officials said.
