BANGKOK: Two executives at a fire-fighting system supplier have been charged with negligence after an accident in which eight people were killed at the headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank, Thai police said.
Contractors working on an upgrade to the building’s chemical fire extinguishers late on Sunday accidentally triggered an extinguisher, the bank said yesterday, releasing a chemical retardant that may have starved the area of oxygen.
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