{"id":98001,"date":"2020-10-22T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98001"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T08:38:35","slug":"gas-pipeline-explosion-kills-three-injures-52-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=98001","title":{"rendered":"Gas pipeline explosion kills three, injures 52 in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Thailand-gas-pipeline-explosion.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98051\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Thailand-gas-pipeline-explosion.jpeg 720w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Thailand-gas-pipeline-explosion-300x150.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Volunteer rescue team at the explosion site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BANGKOK, Oct 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp; An explosion on&nbsp;a gas pipeline at Samut Prakan,&nbsp;southeast of Bangkok, has killed&nbsp;three people and injured&nbsp;another 52.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp; blast at 12.55 pm (local time) today occurred when&nbsp;natural gas leaked from a pipeline of PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) and caught fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the blast, at least four houses were badly damaged and half a dozen roofs damaged, reported Bangkok Post.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samut&nbsp; Prakan provincial governor, Wanchai Kongkasem said at least 30 families&nbsp;were affected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe relevant authorities are working to determine the cause of the explosion ,\u201d he told the media after inspecting the scene today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that those injured with burns were rushed to nearby hospitals while the authorities have&nbsp;cleared the affected area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanchai said an evacuation centre has set up to provide assistance to victims and he assured the area is safe and there will be no second explosion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPTT has cut-off the system,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a government spokesman, Anucha Burapachaisri said Prime Minister Prayuth Chan o-cha had&nbsp;ordered relevant authorities to speed up inspection and investigation to determine the cause of the explosion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the prime minister also ordered the authorities to provide assistance to those affected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 NNNBERNAMA&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK, Oct 22 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp; An explosion on&nbsp;a gas pipeline at Samut Prakan,&nbsp;southeast of Bangkok, has killed&nbsp;three people and injured&nbsp;another 52.&nbsp; The&nbsp; blast at 12.55 pm (local time) today occurred when&nbsp;natural gas leaked from a pipeline of PTT Public Company Limited (PTT) and caught fire. Following the blast, at least four houses were badly damaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":98051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}