The Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in Bangkok said that it is closely following the tragic fire incident in the Ladprao-Jattugak area and added that, to date, no Omani citizens have been reported among the victims or injured.
The embassy reported that most of those affected are Thai nationals and that the area is in a residential neighborhood far from tourist sites.
The Embassy expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a speedy recovery to the injured.
Thailand's fire department Investigators combed on Monday through the wreckage of a huge fire at a Bangkok bar that killed at least 28 people, as relatives began the grim task of identifying the dead.
More than 70 people were injured following the blaze on Sunday evening on the outskirts of the Thai capital, officials said, the country's worst such incident for almost two decades.
Flames ripped through the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao bar and restaurant and burst out of the entrance, sending people fleeing, several with their clothing burned or ablaze.
"Everybody was running, squeezing into each other," recalled Athipat "Ice" Wijarn, whose bandmates were on stage when the fire broke out around 11:00 pm (1600 GMT) Sunday.
The lights went out, and he noticed smoke coming from the circuit board behind them. He told the Thai talk show Hone-Krasae.
As he crawled towards the exit, he said, "There was an explosion, and I got hit on the back of my head". The keyboardist, Kwang, and the band's singer, Breeze, both died. Kaew-udon Poungppany fought back tears as he described his desperate attempts to reach his younger brother, Phonepaseut Poungppany, 21, who died in the fire. "I grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it at the door... but I couldn't go any further.
I heard people screaming," the 24-year-old of Laotian nationality told reporters. - 'No lights' - The bodies of the victims were taken away early on Monday morning, before forensic police began picking their way through the devastated venue.
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