Search teams found partial remains of what are believed to be 18 people under the debris of the collapsed SAO building during yesterday and overnight, said Suriyachai Rawiwan, director of the Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) today.
All the remains were have been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institute for identification.
Deputy Bangkok Governor Tavida Kamolvej says that the BMA have sought help from the Thai Embassy in Myanmar, by collecting DNA samples from relatives of missing Myanmar nationals, to be used in the identification process, adding that 97 sets of DNA have been collected so far.
Meanwhile, police reopened two lanes of the Kamphaeng Phet 2 Road today, adjacent to the recovery site. The road had been completely closed to traffic since the building’s collapse on March 28th. The two other lanes are still blocked off, to facilitate the clearing of the remaining rubble from the SAO construction site.
