Ten more human bodies were found yesterday, buried under the rubble of the collapsed State Audit Office building, bringing the total number of those confirmed dead to 74, with 20 people still unaccounted for, according to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said in his post on the BMA’s web page that the discovery of the 10 sets of workers’ remains on May Day (International Workers’ Day) was a breakthrough, albeit a sad one.
Suriyachai Rawiwan, director of the Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation at the BMA, said that the remains were found in Zone D, but they cannot be recovered yet because access is still blocked by huge cement slabs, beams and broken pillars.
He also said that large backhoes, which were being used to clear the mound of debris, have been withdrawn from the site and smaller machines and drills are now being used instead.
Meanwhile, Pol Lt-Col Amorn Hongsrithong, director of the DSI’s bid rigging investigations division, said his men have already questioned 25 engineers and are about to question the final 10 today, adding that most of the engineers claim that their signatures, which appear on documents related to supervision of construction work, are forged.
