'Many Bangkok buildings unsafe'

'Many Bangkok buildings unsafe'

THAILAND: Authorities in Thailand's teeming capital have listed
3,000 high-rise buildings as gravely unsafe saying many are under
particular threat from fire, according to a report on Sunday.

The Bangkok buildings threatening public safety have not been
named for fear of inciting a wave of law suits against the city,
the president of the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT)
reportedly said.

"The state simply says there are 3,000 unsafe buildings in
Bangkok and stops at that," EIT's Totrakul Yomnak told the
Bangkok Post.

"They fear being hit with defamation suits, so they say
nothing."

Concern over Bangkok's high-rises surged with the collapse
earlier this month of part of a city department store which
killed one person and injured six others. --AFP