Sono Quattro i morti ufficiali dell'inferno Tiger Disco Patong.
Ieri sera ho fatto un giro in Bangla, quanta gente che si divertiva...
Vicino lo "scheletro" della disco odore di bruciato, un odore pungente, ma davanti le "signorine allegre" sculettanti come sempre.
Sulla via parallela la strada è transennata in una "meta perfetta" per dare la possibilità ai locali adiacenti di lavorare, di fare finta che non sia successo nulla.
Il vecchio Tiger è morto, mentre il nuovo pieno di luci è imballato di gente che beve e si diverte..
Ragazzi vi ricordate The Show Must Go On, singolo dei Queen, ecco lo spettacolo deve continuare ed è continuato.
Credo che la Bangla Road senza il suo Show Quotidiano non ha senso d'esistere, ed allora con tanto di rispetto per i morti, i feriti, si deve continuare.
Poi ci sarà tempo di analizzare la cosa, il fulmine che preso il famoso trasformatore ad olio io non sono riuscito a vederlo! E si ci ho girato tutto attorno ieri notte...
E poi orario di chiusura per i locali 2.00 Am, incendio è scoppiato alle 4.00 Am
Posso continuare per almeno 5 pagine raccontato "cose evidenti" che però sembrano essere ignorate, almeno per ora...
Quindi RIP per le vittime, lo Show Continua, il "Circo Bangla Aperto" come prima più di prima, e sulle responsabilità spero per una volta si faccia chiarezza!
Quattro altri morti in Patong, la lista si allunga, uno certamente identificato come cameriera grazie al braccialetto d'oro, forse stranieri, di certo sei Francesi ustionati gravemente in ospedale con il corpo martoriato, le foto non dicono quanto dolore devono provare, una vita rovinata per sempre.
Qui nel mio Blog oggi niente foto di spiagge, niente meteo (comunque sole), tutto dedicato al Tiger locale dove ho passato tante sere... dove mi sono ubriacato fino a rompermi, dove ho fatto tante amicizie...
Martino M.
Ecco io il Tiger lo ricordo così, me lo porto dentro per sempre, come in questo video:
Articoli in Italiano e dai Giornali locali in lingua Inglese, un lungo Copia/Incolla:
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Phuket Tourist Blaze: Four Dead, Eleven Injured as Fire Rips After-Hours Patong Disco
Friday, August 17, 2012
PHUKET: Fire ravaged an after-hours discotheque on Phuket early today, killing four people and injuring 11 more, according to early reports.
The fire in Patong, Phuket's west coast tourist hub, is reported to have broken out at 3.55am, almost two hours after all bars and other venues in Patong are supposed to close.
At 6am, the area around the Tiger Discotheque off Patong's Soi Bangla remained under tight police control, with a large crowd of onlookers held back as ambulances reversed one by one down the laneway to pick up bodies.
This report is coming LIVE from the Platinum bar on the laneway corner with Soi Bangla, where go-go dancers usually gyrate.
There is nothing but sadness is Patong today.
At Patong Hospital, authorities were unable to pinpoint precisely how many injured had been caught by the fire, but a nurse did say that one man was critically burned and in danger.
Forensic police went in to the fire scene a short time ago, to check the cause of the blaze. It is believed the bodies are still inside.
Only when they are examined will it be known whether they are tourists or Thais. Almost certainly, some tourists are among the dead and injured.
The Tiger group had recently built and opened its own new Tiger bar complex in Soi Bangla, reportedly because the rents charged for much of the nightlife premises had grown too high.
After a large fire in Bangkok killed scores of people on New Year's Eve a couple of years ago, Phuket authorities conducted a crackdown on venues on Phuket.
The old Tiger Discotheque was one of the venues checked by the then governor for safety exits.
This morning's blaze ripped through the premises at the back of the Tiger complex, exposing beams along about 30 metres of the structure.
Firemen were climbing stairs to complete the mopping up process. Presumably, the stairs were the way that some people escaped the inferno.
Patong is currently in the middle of an election campaign for mayor, with the incumbent, Pian Keesin, standing again and hoping to win on September 2.
This morning's tragedy is likely to highlight safety as a critical issue for Phuket tourism - but in a different way to the murder of Australian tourist Michelle Smith, who was knifed in a bag snatch on June 20.
From my seat at Platinum, I can see the tattered remains of a large sign above the Tiger, advertising a big That boxing fight on August 24.
By then, the number of dead and injured, the cause of the blaze and the future of Patong will be plain.
The fire in Patong, Phuket's west coast tourist hub, is reported to have broken out at 3.55am, almost two hours after all bars and other venues in Patong are supposed to close.
At 6am, the area around the Tiger Discotheque off Patong's Soi Bangla remained under tight police control, with a large crowd of onlookers held back as ambulances reversed one by one down the laneway to pick up bodies.
This report is coming LIVE from the Platinum bar on the laneway corner with Soi Bangla, where go-go dancers usually gyrate.
There is nothing but sadness is Patong today.
At Patong Hospital, authorities were unable to pinpoint precisely how many injured had been caught by the fire, but a nurse did say that one man was critically burned and in danger.
Forensic police went in to the fire scene a short time ago, to check the cause of the blaze. It is believed the bodies are still inside.
Only when they are examined will it be known whether they are tourists or Thais. Almost certainly, some tourists are among the dead and injured.
The Tiger group had recently built and opened its own new Tiger bar complex in Soi Bangla, reportedly because the rents charged for much of the nightlife premises had grown too high.
After a large fire in Bangkok killed scores of people on New Year's Eve a couple of years ago, Phuket authorities conducted a crackdown on venues on Phuket.
The old Tiger Discotheque was one of the venues checked by the then governor for safety exits.
This morning's blaze ripped through the premises at the back of the Tiger complex, exposing beams along about 30 metres of the structure.
Firemen were climbing stairs to complete the mopping up process. Presumably, the stairs were the way that some people escaped the inferno.
Patong is currently in the middle of an election campaign for mayor, with the incumbent, Pian Keesin, standing again and hoping to win on September 2.
This morning's tragedy is likely to highlight safety as a critical issue for Phuket tourism - but in a different way to the murder of Australian tourist Michelle Smith, who was knifed in a bag snatch on June 20.
From my seat at Platinum, I can see the tattered remains of a large sign above the Tiger, advertising a big That boxing fight on August 24.
By then, the number of dead and injured, the cause of the blaze and the future of Patong will be plain.
     
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Phuket Disco Horror: Swathed Survivor Says, 'I Don't Know What Happened'
Friday, August 17, 2012
PHUKET: A blaze swept through an after-hours disco on Phuket today, killing two men and two women and injuring 11 others.
The fire left the Tiger Discotheque in Patong's Soi Bangla walking street a blackened mess. It broke out about 3.55am - almost two hours after closing time. The identity of those killed is not known. Four French tourists were among those injured, one seriously with burns to 40 percent of his body. The burned man spoke to Phuketwan today from his hospital bed about the fire, but could only say: ''Tiger Disco? I don't know what happened.'' Forensic police moved in to the blackened disco as ambulances carried away the bodies, brought out from a side entrance through the iconic gaping jaws of a tiger. At Patong Hospital, the bodies were laid out in a ground-floor cavity, where they will be more closely examined in an effort to establish their identity. Upstairs, Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, was being treated for second degree burns to 40 percent of his body. The hospital listed others treated for less serious burns as Nycolas Robyn, 25, Mathieu Lagrange, 40, and Yasmine Khelaef-Humber, 31, along with seven Thais. Ironically, a large meeting of Phuket resort managements, local authorities and police was planned for today at a Patong resort. The meeting, called in the wake of the murder of Australian tourist Michelle Smith in a knife attack in June, was cancelled after news of today's blaze spread. The Phuket region has had an unprecedented series of tourist tragedies this year. Eight people have drowned at Phuket's popular west coast beaches, and two more were killed in a whitewater rafting tragedy north of Phuket. Two Canadian sisters died in mysterious circumstances at a resort on the popular holiday island of Phi Phi from what appeared to be a toxic reaction. Four Swedes and a Thai driver were killed in a crash that also occurred north of Phuket. Then came Michelle Smith's murder in June. Today's fire is the worst in a Thai nightclub since the fire at the Santika in Bangkok on new year's eve 2009 killed 62 revellers. Checks for safety were made on Phuket after the Santika fire, and the Tiger Discotheque was one of the nightclubs inspected by the Phuket Governor at the time. Today the blackened skeleton at the rear of the Patong disco revealed little about what had happened inside. In the trash alongside the Tiger exit lay a high-heeled pair of women's dancing shoes. Phuket's Governor and all three Phuket vice governors were in Bangkok today for meetings about next year's Phuket budget. |
Phuket Disco Dead: Frenchman, Japanese, Two Thais Are Likely Blaze Victims
Friday, August 17, 2012
PHUKET: The dead in Phuket's Patong disco inferno are thought to be a Frenchman, a Japanese man and two Thais, Phuket police sources said tonight.
The four bodies, charred beyond identification in a 3.55am blaze at Tiger Discotheque on Patong's popular Soi Bangla walking street, are likely to be transported to Bangkok tomorrow.
In Bangkok or on Phuket, Thailand's top forensic police will determine the identity of the four victims by DNA checks, the only certain method of restoring their names.
Phuketwan was told this evening that the dead Frenchman has been identified by a wristwatch, but DNA is the only acceptable method of positive identification where extreme burns are involved.
Another Frenchman who suffered second degree burns to 40 percent of his body in the early morning fire is now being treated at Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket City.
He is believed to be a friend of the dead Frenchman.
Three other French people were among 11 clubbers injured in the blaze. Two of the clubbers were admitted to Patong Hospital. The other nine were treated and allowed to leave.
Frenchman Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, swathed in bandages from head to toe, has since been transferred to Bangkok Hospital Phuket.
A Thai woman, Nudang Pramangkata, 42, is also still being treated at Patong Hospital for dizziness and hyperventilation.
The sex of the two dead victims categorised as Thais has yet to be clarified.
It is said that one body contained silicone breast implants, which could mean the victim was a woman or a ladyboy katoeytranssexual.
Many katoeys are part of the nightclub scene in Patong, Phuket's west coast nightlife hub.
Thailand's forensic police are skilled in identifying burns victims because of lessons learned during the 2004 tsunami, when 5400 people died in Thailand, half of them tourists.
The Santika pub blaze in Bangkok on news year's eve 2009 in which more than 60 people died honed the burns identification skills of Thai police.
The four bodies, charred beyond identification in a 3.55am blaze at Tiger Discotheque on Patong's popular Soi Bangla walking street, are likely to be transported to Bangkok tomorrow.
In Bangkok or on Phuket, Thailand's top forensic police will determine the identity of the four victims by DNA checks, the only certain method of restoring their names.
Phuketwan was told this evening that the dead Frenchman has been identified by a wristwatch, but DNA is the only acceptable method of positive identification where extreme burns are involved.
Another Frenchman who suffered second degree burns to 40 percent of his body in the early morning fire is now being treated at Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket City.
He is believed to be a friend of the dead Frenchman.
Three other French people were among 11 clubbers injured in the blaze. Two of the clubbers were admitted to Patong Hospital. The other nine were treated and allowed to leave.
Frenchman Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, swathed in bandages from head to toe, has since been transferred to Bangkok Hospital Phuket.
A Thai woman, Nudang Pramangkata, 42, is also still being treated at Patong Hospital for dizziness and hyperventilation.
The sex of the two dead victims categorised as Thais has yet to be clarified.
It is said that one body contained silicone breast implants, which could mean the victim was a woman or a ladyboy katoeytranssexual.
Many katoeys are part of the nightclub scene in Patong, Phuket's west coast nightlife hub.
Thailand's forensic police are skilled in identifying burns victims because of lessons learned during the 2004 tsunami, when 5400 people died in Thailand, half of them tourists.
The Santika pub blaze in Bangkok on news year's eve 2009 in which more than 60 people died honed the burns identification skills of Thai police.
Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress
Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangkul today confirmed that several people had come forward to identify at least one of the four victims incinerated in the Tiger Discotheque inferno in Patong early this morning. “I received reports of one French tourist and one Japanese tourist missing from guesthouses in the Patong area. I have just received another report from Patong Police about one missing Thai staffer who worked at Tiger Discotheque,” he confirmed to the Phuket Gazette. The news follows several guesthouses today reporting guests who did not return to their hotels last night, Maj Gen Chonasit explained this afternoon. Earlier today, several people arrived at Patong Police Station to file missing persons reports. One officer told the Gazette, “One Thai woman who came to the police station said she recognized the wristwatch and bracelet of her friend when she went to see the body at Patong Hospital. “She said her friend worked as a waitress at Tiger Discotheque. She [the victim] was around 20 years old and originally came from Sukhothai province.” The officer added that two Frenchmen, both tourists, also arrived at Patong Police Station to report that their friend had been missing since last night. “They thought their friend might be one of the bodies found at Tiger Discotheque,” he said. One Japanese tourist also came to the police station to report a friend who had been missing since last night, the officer added. The officer declined to name Thai staffer, the French tourist or the Japanese tourist reported as missing. Maj Gen Chonasit said that one of the bodies is believed to have been female or a transgender person, called katoey in Thai. “I am not sure if it is the body of female or transgender person, but there were silicone implants under the breasts,” he said. However, he added, “We can’t be 100 per cent sure who the person is until the body is formally identified at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok.” The news follows Royal Thai Police Assistant Commissioner-General Lt Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakan arriving from Bangkok this afternoon to see with his own eyes the devastation the fire had caused. Lt Gen Chalermkiat confirmed that he had ordered the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok to take over the daunting task of identifying the four victims trapped in the blaze. “We have assigned officers from Office of Forensic Science from Bangkok to investigate the cause of the fire. I have also ordered that all four bodies be sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok for identification. “No one from the institute in Bangkok has arrived yet. A team from Provincial Police Region 8 came down today to check, but I have yet to receive any report [from them],” he added. “I will also check for the operating hours of this place, but the most important thing at this stage is to determine the cause of fire and to identify the bodies,” Lt Gen Chalermkiat said.
Tiger disco fire: Police to call in forensics experts from Bangkok
The blaze, which claimed the lives of four people, may have started as a result of an electrical fault inside the building. Events inside the nightclub seem to have followed the “power-up” of the main electricity transformer outside the building, which had exploded earlier plunging the whole area into darkness. Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangkul told the Phuket Gazette this morning that he is focusing the investigation on two main areas of concern. Firstly, the exact cause of the fire which is currently thought to be an electrical fault; and secondly, were modifications to extend the building legally approved and carried out according to building regulations. “We are now in the process of trying to identify the four people who perished in the fire. We are expecting the arrival of a forensics team from Bangkok today to assist us in this task.” Maj Gen Chonasit said. Kanyaporn Kantong , 25, from Sisaket province in Northeastern Thailand, told reporters that she was with three friends in the nightclub when the fire broke out. “We were sitting at a table drinking when someone shouted ‘Fire! Fire!’. Nobody moved as we didn’t believe it. “Then we saw sparks and smoke coming from the area behind the bar counter followed by lights falling from the ceiling… Then we ran for the exit. “Although I made it to the exit, I couldn’t get out as so many people, who were also trying to escape, were jammed together." It was at that point that Ms Kanyaporn realized her shirt was on fire. Luckily she was saved from burns by a mystery foreigner who put out the flames. “I didn’t get burned but in the panic someone pushed me down the stairs. I fell injuring my foot,” she said. Thamrongsak Boonrak, legal counsel for the Tiger Group of entertainment businesses in Patong, told theGazette that all victims of the fire will be fully compensated. “The company will cover the medical expenses of those who are injured. We will also look into some form of compensation concerning those who died. “This is a most regrettable accident, the cost of which could run into hundreds of millions of baht,” Mr Thamrongsak said. “Whether or not the building can be salvaged we will have to let the experts decide. We will go with any decision they make,” he added. Tiger fire ‘sounded like a bomb’, report staff
Thamrongsak Boonrak, Legal Counsel for Tiger Discotheque, told the Phuket Gazette this morning: “The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but I have been told that lightning struck a transformer. The power shut down and came back on three times before staff heard an explosion. At first they thought it was a bomb." “People panicked and ran. Then a fire broke out and people started choking on the smoke. People stampeded for the exits, trampling one another as they ran for the doors,” he said. “Our staff tried to fight the fire with more than 30 extinguishers. If they hadn't fought the fire, there would have been many more people injured. They stayed as long as they could to fight the fire, but in the end they had to leave the building,” he added. Mr Thamrongsak assured that the club owners will compensate victims caught in the fire, as well as their families. “The club is insured. Compensation will be paid in full for the people who were injured and the families of the those who died in this tragedy." “We are not going to deny any responsibility. We will not let this affect Thailand’s reputation as a tourism destination. We have already arranged to cover medical expenses at the hospital,” he said. Mr Thamrongsak said he was not sure of the total cost of property damage at this stage. As legal counsel for the Tiger Group of entertainment companies that operate in Patong, Mr Thamrongsak added that the nightclub building complied with all building regulations. “It is fully legal,” he said. However, he added, “I don’t think the building can be used anymore. We will have to talk to the owner, as we rent the premises." “I will talk with Patong Municipality. If they say the building must be pulled down, we will ask the owner to do it. We would not risk public safety by re-opening [the club] in a building with structural damage by fire." Asked why patrons were still inside the nightclub at 4am, Mr Thamrongsak replied, “Heavy rain started to fall at about 1am, the time we usually close. That’s why people did not want to leave the club. “It was still packed when the fire broke out [at 4am],” he said. For more photos of the fire and the rescue effort, click here. 4 dead, 11 injured in Tiger disco inferno
Among the injured were four French nationals.  Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong Patong Municipality Fire Department rescuers raced to the scene with eight fire engines. It took them about one hour to extinguish the fire. The firefighters had to battle the blaze in the darkness, as power had to be cut throughout the municipality for safety reasons. Kathu Police said that the cause of the fire appears to have been related to an explosion in an electrical transformer. The identities of the four dead have not yet been released; all were burned beyond recognition.  Photo: Atchaa Khamlo The other victim was 42-year-old Noodaneg Pramangkata, who suffered from dizziness and hyperventilation. Other French nationals treated and released were identified as: Nicolas Robyn, 25, minor injury to the right arm; Mathieu Lagrange, 40, minor hand and arm injury; Ms Yasmine Khelaef-humber, panic attack. Also suffering a serious injury was 25-year-old Kanyaporn Kantong, who was at the venue with two friends when they began to smell smoke in one of the two second-storey bars attached to the disco. Another witness who escaped unharmed told the Gazette she noticed that Mr Talanotte was badly burned and assisted him to safety. Mr Talanotte was a guest at a hotel on Nanai Road and was concerned that his wife was unaware that he was being treated in Patong Hospital. Although not on the list of those treated at Patong Hospital, the owner of the nightclub, identified only as “Mr Piya”, also suffered minor injuries, Patong Police said. The area remains cordoned off as investigators sift through the scene, including the bar complex area underneath the main nightclub. The Gazette was told that once news of the fire spread through the nightclub, many patrons rushed to the front door. Many people were hurt as they tried to exit via the stairs at the front. Security guards are now allowing controlled access to let bar owners in to check their properties. The electrical power supply has now been restored to the wider area. For further images of this dramatic scene click here.
Sono almeno quattro le vittime di stanotte, quando in Thailandia, in una discoteca popolare tra i turisti stranieri sull’isola di Phuket, si è sviluppato un incendio. Le fiamme sono divampate, secondo quanto ha spiegato il governatore della popolare meta turistica thailandese, intorno alle 4 del mattino nella discoteca Tiger, quasi due ore dopo l’orario di chiusura imposto a bar e locali notturni sull’isola. Il numero delle vittime è stato comunicato dalla stessa polizia che ha anche detto come lo stato dei cadaveri, completamente carbonizzati, rende molto difficile se non improbabile l’identificazione. Tra i morti, da quanto si apprende, si sarebbero almeno due donne e un uomo.
Dalle prime indagini l’incendio causato da un fulmine - Molte altre persone, circa 20, sono rimaste ferite, tra questi ci sarebbero almeno quattro turisti di nazionalità francese, uno di loro in condizioni gravi. L’incendio era talmente vasto che per domare le fiamme i vigili del fuoco hanno impiegato oltre un’ora, le cause ancora non sono chiare. Secondo le prime indagini pare che le fiamme si siano propagate al secondo piano dopo che un fulmine ha centrato un trasformatore elettrico. L’ambasciata italiana a Bangkok sta verificando l’eventuale presenza di nostri connazionali tra i coinvolti dell’incidente.
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