According to Thai media news, at around 5 a.m. on May 17, Pattaya Police Department in Chonburi Province, Thailand, received a report that a fire broke out in an apartment near the Chai Mengkun Temple Market in Nong Prue District, Bang Lamong County, so they immediately coordinated fire and rescue personnel to rush to the scene.
Upon arrival, the police found that the room on the 12th floor of the apartment was smoking and on fire, and that most of the residents of the apartment were foreigners who had fled downstairs after the fire. Firefighters immediately sprinkled water to extinguish the fire, and the fire was finally brought under control. After questioning the foreign occupant of the room where the fire started, he himself stated that he did not know the cause of the fire.
The foreigner said that everyone was sleeping before the incident, and when he woke up to see the fire in his bedroom, he quickly fled the scene, and more importantly, he himself will return to China on the 18th. According to the security guard of the apartment, the foreign man often drank heavily, and the fire caused burns on his neck and right arm, and he has been sent to the hospital for treatment, and the police will question him again in detail.