Bangkok building collapse: Body, human remains recovered


Rescue workers removing debris at the site of a building in Bangkok that collapsed during a massive quake on March 28, 2025. - Photo: EPA-EFE

BANGKOK: A body and seven sets of human remains have been recovered from the rubble of a 30-storey government building that collapsed during a massive earthquake in March.

The under-construction State Audit Office building was reduced to an immense pile of rubble when a 7.7-magnitude quake struck neighbouring Myanmar on March 28, killing at least 44 people at the construction site.

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