Cell-phone blamed for overnight house fire

  1. How a two-storey residence in Mancha Khiri district was destroyed in Khon Kaen?

fire believed started by

a plugged-in mobile phone left to overcharge when

the 80-year-old householder went out for the night

  1. What police do?

alerted to the fire at the wooden house in Ban Nong To at around 12.30am on Wednesday

  1. What firefighters from several districts were?

dispatched to the site

brought the blaze under control in 30 minutes

  1. Who is Pol Col Banjong Sirisut and what Pol Col Banjong Sirisut said?

superintendent of Mancha Khiri police station

Neighbours told officers they heard a loud noise from inside the house, and then saw flames which quickly spread through it.

  1. What the house owner, identified?

Thongkham, 80, later

arrived home

passed

when she saw what had become of her house and then she taken to hospital


  1. What Thongkham later told police?

she set her mobile phone to

charge in her bedroom

forgot to unplug it before leaving the house on business

  1. What Pol Col Banjong Sirisut said?

This is the likely cause of the fire.

  1. What the cause of the blaze being?

still being investigated