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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