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PM Anutin, who visited the site, said many ran to the back of the pub but there were no fire escapes.

Emergency workers moving a victim’s body to an ambulance after a fire broke out at 11.57pm on July 12 at Bangkok’s Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar-restaurant.

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