Footage shared online by first responders showed a huge blaze raging in the Na Ladprao pub.

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A fire that engulfed a popular pub in northern Bangkok has killed 27 people and injured 73, with police investigating possible negligence including obstructed emergency exits as people scrambled to flee the burning venue.

“Twenty-seven bodies were moved out, lifeless bodies,” Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Monday, in televised remarks from the scene of the blaze. “Some were sent to hospitals. We are checking their conditions.”