Cell-phone blamed for overnight house fire
- 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
- What police do?
alerted to the fire at the wooden house in Ban Nong To at around 12.30am on Wednesday
- What firefighters from several districts were?
dispatched to the site
brought the blaze under control in 30 minutes
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- What Pol Col Banjong Sirisut said?
This is the likely cause of the fire.
- What the cause of the blaze being?
still being investigated