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The blaze apparently broke out after a firework display at the Santika club in the Thai capitals Ekkamai district, a thronging entertainment hub which is frequented by locals and tourists.
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"Police are investigating the incident. It should not take more than two weeks from now to get the result and find the cause of the blaze," said Police General Jongrak Jutanont, deputy national police commissioner.
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Police Lieutenant Colonel Prawit Kantwol earlier told AFP that the likely cause was a pyrotechnics show that accompanied the band.
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"Most of the victims died from suffocation, but some were also killed in a stampede when people were trying to get out," he added.
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About 100 people gathered outside the cordoned-off nightclub, an AFP correspondent said, while inside abandoned shoes and broken bottles littered the floor, testament to the panic inside hours earlier.
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 "I heard that the electricity went out, so they couldn’t find the exit signs to get out," said Ash Sutton from
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 "It’s horrible, horrible... I couldn’t understand why so many people were killed. They must have been trapped upstairs."
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The Nation newspapers website quoted a survivor as saying that the fireworks set the ceiling alight.
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"At first, I thought it was an effect, which looked like (the) real thing. Then, someone shouted fire, fire and panic broke out and people ran for their life," said the woman named as Fah.
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Jongrak told AFP the nightclub was certified by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, but said they were still looking into the safety standards.
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Police officials said at least 58 people were so far confirmed dead.
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Almost all the dead were on the ground floor, where the stage was located. Thai television showed fireman counting bodies swaddled in white cloth, as rescuers helped bloodied and bandaged revelers.
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Fire brigade officials said the death toll was high because there were few exits and the windows on the upper floors had iron bars across them. Some victims were trapped in the basement of the club.
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"There was only one main way to get out from the front. People who worked there were able to escape from the back because they knew the exits, but the others had no chance," senior fireman Wacharatpong Sri-Saard said.
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Police said the fire broke out between midnight and 1:00am, shortly after revelers had celebrated the coming of the New Year.
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The fire was the latest in a series of deadly blazes at nightclubs around the world in recent years.
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In 2003 a pyrotechnics display during a concert at the Station nightclub in
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