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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Thursday 11 april 2019


























            Fire breaks out at Bangkok mall complex, killing at least 2


            By GEMUNU AMARASINGHE                                                                                               complex's  buildings.  Thai
            Associated Press                                                                                                    media  reported  that  at
            BANGKOK  (AP)  —  A  fire                                                                                           least  one  of  the  people
            broke out at one of Bang-                                                                                           who died had jumped from
            kok's biggest mall complex-                                                                                         a building.
            es on Wednesday, killing at                                                                                         Images    showed     large
            least two people and injur-                                                                                         flames  raging  out  of  what
            ing more than a dozen, of-                                                                                          appeared to be a rear por-
            ficials said.                                                                                                       tion of the complex.
            The extent of the fire at the                                                                                       Other  video  showed  hun-
            Thai  capital's  CentralWorld                                                                                       dreds  of  evacuated  shop-
            complex, which includes a                                                                                           pers  filling  a  large  open
            hotel, a convention center                                                                                          square  next  to  the  mall.
            and  an  office  tower,  was                                                                                        Ambulances and other ve-
            small,  but  it  caused  the                                                                                        hicles with their emergency
            shopping  mall's  evacua-                                                                                           lights  on  and  trucks  filled
            tion.                                                                                                               with  firefighters  could  be
            The  blaze  was  quickly  ex-                                                                                       seen.
            tinguished,  but  smoke  still                                                                                      In another video, a woman
            needed  to  be  released                                                                                            is  seen  directing  shoppers
            from several floors, and fire-                                                                                      out  of  the  mall  during  the
            fighters were seen entering   Emergency rescue teams gather outside of the Central World mall complex, Wednesday, April 10,   evacuation.
            the building with masks and   2019, in downtown Bangkok, Thailand.                                                  "I was in the mail and there
            oxygen tanks.                                                                                      Associated Press  was  a  burning  smell  and
            Smoke  was  seen  still  com-                                                                                       smoke  started  to  come
            ing from the building at 9:45  two at  a  hospital.  He  later  The  company  that  oper-  a document storage room  out,"  said  Suthep  Damgji-
            p.m., around four hours af-  said that two people were  ates  CentralWorld  said  in  in one of the buildings that  am, who was with a friend.
            ter the fire broke out.      confirmed  dead,  but  did  a  statement  that  the  two  is part of the complex.      "A fire alarm started to ring
            Bangkok     Gov.   Assawin  not  explain  the  discrepan-  people  who  died  were  Video  posted  on  social  and there were announce-
            Kwanmuang  initially  told  cy. The city's Erawan Emer-   company employees.           media  soon  after  the  fire  ments  on  the  PA  system
            reporters that three people  gency  Radio  network  said  Assawin  said  the  fire  was  began  showed  a  person  telling people to evacuate.
            died, one at the scene and  17 people were injured.       believed to have started in  jumping  from  one  of  the  We came out. q


            Cyclone Idai's death toll now above 1,000 in southern Africa



            By FARAI MUTSAKA             minister  on  Tuesday  said  and recovery efforts to re-
            Associated Press             the death toll in that coun-  lief  work  providing  food
            HARARE,  Zimbabwe  (AP)  try has risen to 344. Mozam-     and shelter to survivors.
            —  The  death  toll  from  the  bique  has  reported  602  Zimbabwe,  whose  econ-
            cyclone  that  ripped  into  deaths and Malawi at least  omy  is  badly  struggling,
            southern  Africa  last  month  59.                        said  it  needs  $612  million
            is  now  above  1,000,  while  Zimbabwe's   efforts   are  to  assist  survivors  and  has
            the  number  of  cholera  now "confined to recovery  appealed  for  international
            cases among survivors has  of the deceased" and the  support.
            risen above 4,000.           government  will  send  pa-  A  final  death  toll  is  yet  to
            The  United  Nations  has  thologists  to  Mozambique  be  established  and  might
            described  Cyclone  Idai,  to  help  identify  bodies,  never be known. A cholera
            which  hit  Mozambique,  said  Information  Minister  outbreak  among  survivors
            Zimbabwe  and  Malawi  Monica  Mutsvangwa.  An  was  declared  in  Mozam-
            nearly  a  month  ago,  as  unknown  number  of  Zim-     bique  on  March  27  and
            "one of the deadliest storms  babweans  were  washed  had led to 4,072 cases and       Women  and  men  pick  up  bricks  from  a  collapsed  house  to
            on  record  in  the  southern  down  mountainsides  into  seven  deaths  as  of  Tues-  build another structure in Beira, Mozambique, Sunday, March,
            hemisphere."                 Mozambique,  which  also  day morning, according to       31, 2019.
            Zimbabwe's      information  has  turned  from  search  government figures.q                                                    Associated Press
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