One of the three people who died in a hotel fire in Bangkok’s Khao San area on Sunday night has been identified as a Brazilian woman, whose boyfriend had just proposed marriage, according to Chana Songkhram police quoting the boyfriend.
The victim, 24-year-old Pimentel Canales Albuquerque, and her boyfriend who was not identified, were staying in room 502 of the hotel, but her body was discovered in room 511, which is thought to be the location of the fire’s origin.
Room 511 was rented by three South Korean tourists, who claim that they were not in the room when the fire broke out and had not left any electrical equipment turned on. Police are curious as to why the Brazilian woman’s body was found in Room 511.
Police questioned the victim’s boyfriend, who claimed that both of them, holding hands, ran out of their room on the fifth floor of the hotel, but they could not find the way out. Then they became separated.
Police think that the Brazilian woman tried to find the exit from the fifth floor by feeling along the walls in the thick smoke, until she arrived at Room 511, the door of which may not have been locked.
She could have entered the room, believing that it would lead to the exit, but was overcome by the smoke.
The other two victims have been identified by police as Ukrainian national Victor Tuzov, 32, and an American, 35-year-old Timothy Freeman.
