This handout photo taken and released on Aug 5, 2022 by the Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation shows firefighters working to contain a fire at the Mountain B nightclub in Sattahip district in Thailand's Chonburi province. (HANDOUT / SAWANG ROJANATHAMMASATHAN RESCUE FOUNDATION / AFP)
Thirteen people have been killed and 35 injured after a fire broke out on Friday at a nightclub in Thailand's Chonburi province, southeast of the capital Bangkok, a police official said.
The fire, which broke out at about 1 am (1800 GMT Thursday), has been put out and all the injured people have been hospitalized, said Wisarut Petcharat, a rescue worker at the scene with the Sawang Rojana Thammasathan Foundation.
The victims, including nine males and four females, were all Thai nationals, Wisarut said.
He said his team has rushed 18 injured people to a local hospital, of whom three were seriously injured.
He also said the club was a one-story building and an investigation into the cause of the accident was underway.
This handout photo taken and released on Aug 5, 2022 by the Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation shows rescue workers inside the Mountain B nightclub after a fire in Sattahip district in Thailand's Chonburi province. (HANDOUT / SAWANG ROJANATHAMMASATHAN RESCUE FOUNDATION / AFP)
Map of Thailand locating Sattahip district where a fire tore through a nightclub early Friday killing more than a dozen people. (STF / AFP)