After 12 hours of unsuccessful digging by hand, Thai and foreign search teams, who had been trying to reach a cavity in the rubble of the collapsed building in Bangkok where a female’s voice was heard, were pulled back at about 1.55pm this afternoon for a rest.
Then, heavy machinery, including huge cranes, resumed lifting huge concrete blocks from the mountain of debris.
128 tanks of gasses were transported to the construction site today for oxy-acetylene cutting of the tangled mesh of rebar, to facilitate the next round of searching.
No survivors or bodies were rescued or recovered today. The death toll remains 15, including eight males and seven females.
72 people are still missing and believed buried under tonnes of concrete and steel.
