PHUKET : -- Four people died of suffocation and the shop owner injured when a fire broke out at a three-storey row shophouse in downtown Phuket early Saturday.
Owner of the furniture shop Chokechai Furniture, Mrs Chanhorm Chakaeo, broke her hand and legs when she jumped down from the third floor room to escape the fire.
When rescue team rushed to pick her on the ground. She told the team that four persons were still trapped in the room next to hers.
Firemen could not break into the room because of the raging fire and thick smoke coming out from the room.
Besides all the windows of the room were fixed with anti-theft iron grills, thus preventing them to escape.
The fire was put out and kept under control two hours later.
They later searched the room and found three bodies on the bed, with the man falling over the body of his wife who hugged her 9-year-old son in her arms.
Another woman lied dead on the floor near the grill window.
Their bodies were not burned and they were believed to die from suffocation.
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