Bangkok On Fire

Rioters have set fire to 27 buildings around Bangkok during the day, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced at 9pm on Wednesday.

Some of the buildings are:

1. The area on Rama I Road around Paragon shopping mall and Siam Square. Siam Theatre was completely gutted.

2. Parts of Centara Grand Hotel at Ratchaprasong

3. Parts of the Stock Exchange of Thailand building on Witthayu Road

4. Mahathun building on Ploenchit Road

5. Bangkok Bank and Krung Thai Bank Asok branches

6. Parts of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and a nearby 7-Eleven convenience store in Din Daeng area

7. Bangkok Bank and Government Savings Bank in Daeng branches

8. Maleenont Building on Rana IV Road which houses Channel 3 television station

9. Bangkok Bank's Rama IV branch and Tesco Lotus superstore on Rama IV Road

10. The Metropolitan Electricity Authority in Klong Toey

11. Central World shopping mall

12. Bangkok Bank's Victory Monument branch

Bangkok Emergency Medical Centre (Erawan) reported at 4pm that the clashes at Rajaprasong now claimed 361 injuries with 42 dead. Patients are treated in 39 hospitals, 111 in general wards with 15 in ICUs.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration warned that Central World building, which was set on fire on Wednesday afternoon, could collapse, according to television reports.

The eight-storey shopping complex is located around the Ratchaprasong intersection.

Fire was reported to have swarmed the building up until the top floor.

The Centre for Resolution of Emergency Situation (CRES) extends the curfew to 23 provinces in the North and Northeast.

The curfew starts from 8pm today until 6am tomorrow. Transgressor faces arrest and can be jailed upto 2 years and/or facing fine not more than 40,000 baht.