{"id":546587,"date":"2026-07-12T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546587\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:46:07","slug":"bangkok-pub-fire-kills-at-least-27-people-and-injures-63-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/546587\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok pub fire kills at least 27 people and injures 63 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At least 27 people have been killed and 63 injured in a fire that engulfed a pub in Bangkok early on Monday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rescuers said the fire was reported around midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Footage shared online by emergency services personnel showed the blaze raging out of the front door of the pub in the northern part of the Thai capital as people tried to flee, with thick black smoke billowing into the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/thailand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/thailand\/\">Thailand<\/a> prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters at the scene that 27 people had died and several had been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He said the cause of the fire was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Local media identified the venue as Rong \u200cBeer Na \u2060Lat Phrao.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Emergency services personnel recovered mobile phones belonging to victims of the fire. Photograph: Sakchai Lalit\/AP\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7GERVLYCT7CFVLJFOM5FKDQ3EY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Emergency services personnel recovered mobile phones belonging to victims of the fire. Photograph: Sakchai Lalit\/AP <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Firefighters took about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Photos of the aftermath show charred tables and chairs and the damaged interior of the pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thailand has seen similar tragedies in the past. In 2022, 14 people were killed by a fire at a music pub in the eastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And more than a decade before that, 66 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a fire during a January 1st, 2009, New Year\u2019s Eve celebration at the Santika nightclub in Thailand\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">That blaze was apparently sparked by an indoor fireworks display. \u2013 AP\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 27 people have been killed and 63 injured in a fire that engulfed a pub in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,1667,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-546587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-thailand","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}