Signs of life detected in quake-struck Bangkok skyscraper; death toll tops 2,000


BANGKOK (Reuters): Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,000.

Scanning machines and sniffer dogs were deployed at the unfinished skyscraper and Bangkok's Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej said rescuers were urgently working out how to access an area where signs of life had been detected, three days on from the quake.

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