Thailand is investigating a high -level Bangkok earthquake, as the official sees “something suspicious”

Serious questions appeared on the tragedy that is still playing at a construction site in the capital of Thailand four days after an earthquake in the neighboring Myanmar shook the city. The 30 -storey skyscraper was under construction was the only tower in Bangkok, which has completely failed to endure the Friday earthquake, which amounted to 7.7 volumes and the continuous final tremors.

It was reduced to a mountain of rubble within seconds on Friday, killing at least 19 people and leaving 77 still missing from Monday, after the volunteer rescue organization said fire and Savings of Thailand that another body was withdrawn from the debris.

Thai authorities requested an investigation into the isolated collapse to determine whether it could be due to insufficient building materials, design defects, or failure in the inspection and approvals.

The Bangkok Ruler Chadshart Stepont visited the site on Monday, when heavy machines were withdrawn on the rubble in the hope of finding more survivors. He said that all efforts focus on finding anyone who may still be saved.

Thai rescue teams are working at the location of a rivers that was under construction, March 31, 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand, four days after the overthrow of a strong earthquake, besieging dozens of workers. Lauren Disica/Getti

“Even one life is saved worthy of this effort, so I think we must go forward,” he said.

But he made it clear that the authorities were already considering how this happened and how to prevent this from happening again.

“The important thing is in the long and medium-term-I think we need to find the root cause in order to be able to learn at least some lessons and improve construction regulations,” Cashir told reporters at the scene. “In the end, we will have some results that will improve safety in Bangkok.”

Paitongtarn Shinawatra was among those who express their concern during the weekend about the reason that the skyscraper was the only one to suffer from severe damage.

“I have questions in my mind,” she said. “What happened from the beginning since its design? How did this design approved.” “We have to investigate the place where the error occurred.”

The leader confirmed an investigation into the incident, which included a group of experts assigned to provide preliminary results in just days.

Some critics speculate that steel reinforcement bars used to connect concrete components inside the structure may be very thin, or insufficient. Experts removed many steel bars from the rubble for testing on Monday.

International and local rescue teams use a thermal camera to search for missing persons in the wreckage of a rivers building where dozens were still trapped after the earthquakes that struck the neighboring Myanmar, in Bangkok, Thailand, March 31, 2025.

On Sunday, Agence France -Presse reported that the Thai Minister of Industry, Bromwan Akat, as saying six different types of steel, all of one manufacturer, discovered at the scene.

Akatat said: “The collapse of the building can come from several factors, one of the specifications of design and construction (and) material specifications.” “Most importantly is the standard of materials.”

He told the correspondents' Akids that he had “found something already”, but he is waiting for the test results to provide more information.

The project to build the new government audit building was a joint project between a real estate developer based in Bangkok, the Italian Thai Development Company, and a state -owned Chinese company, the engineering group of railways No. 10, which was implementing many actual construction work.

On Sunday, the Bangkok Post, who said Bangkok Porsus, Major General Nubasin Ponsouwat, Deputy Commissioner of Power, said that the officers questioned four Chinese men who found 32 files of containers behind the collapsed building. Nubasin said that men had work permits for the site and were working by a company under the auspices of the Italian Thai Development Company.

The post quoted Noppasin as saying that the files contain documents containing information about the sub -contractors and contractors in the project, and that the police had seized the files and then issued the Chinese men after the interrogation.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Thai Interior Minister Anoten Charncherrakol visits the location of a collapse building, under the construction, March 29, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand, after he toppled a strong earthquake to the structure. Lauren Disica/Getti

Thai Interior Minister Anoten Charncherrakol told reporters on Sunday that he ordered the establishment of the investigation committee and that he wanted to report it within seven days.

Anoten said: “We will definitely find the real reasons for the cause of the collapse of this building, because it is all scientific.”

Hope was fading at the speed of Monday so that any construction workers could be withdrawn from the rubble alive, but the crews that used the search dogs continued to recover the bodies of the victims as families continued to be vigilant near the site, and refused to lose hope.

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Tucker Reals is a foreign CBSNews.com editor, based in the CBS News London office. He worked for CBS News since 2006, before him worked at the Associated Press in Washington, DC and London.

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