More than 70 people were injured following the blaze on the night of July 12 on the outskirts of the Thai capital, officials said. It was Thailand’s worst blaze in a bar in almost two decades.
Flames ripped through the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar and restaurant and burst out of the entrance, sending people fleeing, several with their clothes burnt or ablaze.
"Everybody was running, squeezing into one another," recalled Athipat "Ice" Wijarn, whose band was on stage when the fire broke out at around 11 p.m. on July 12 (local time).
The lights went out and they noticed smoke coming from the electrical circuit on the wall behind them, he told Thai talk show Hone-Krasae.
As he crawled towards the exit, he said, "there was an explosion and I got hit at the back of my head. I felt the heat and the burn".
