“We are still looking for more victims, but the death toll is now 23 dead and 11 wounded,” Mai Hung Dung, an official from the province of Dung, told AFP. Binh Duong, where the accident occurred. A first count gave the figure of 12 dead.
The fire broke out on Tuesday in the an phu bar in the city of Thuan An, north of Ho Chi Minh City. “The cause of the fire has not been determined and is under investigation,” Nguyen Thanh Ham, a local leader, told AFP.
The fire broke out on the second and third floors of a four-story building with 30 karaoke rooms, trapping customers and staff, official media reported.
Some were able to take refuge on a balcony as the flames grew in intensity, fueled indoors by wooden decorations, while others had to jump from floors, according to the same source.
“Many people escaped through the main entrance, but many more jumped and broke their legs and hands,” a witness told the VNExpress news site.
Photos showed firefighters working from cranes near windows from which plumes of smoke continued to rise. Local police said fire prevention measures in the building had been reviewed before the accident, according to state media.
The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Pham Minh Chinhordered on Wednesday the inspection of establishments at risk, including karaoke bars, very popular in the country.
It is the deadliest fire in Vietnam since that of a residential building in Ho Chi Minh City in 2018 that left 13 fatalities.
A similar tragedy (13 dead) occurred in 2016 in a karaoke bar in the capital, Hanoiand already warned then of the security conditions of many similar establishments.
Source: Ambito
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