Photos Fire Victims Bangkok Club

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 10/8

During the two-day event, there are many folk games and sporting activities such as stick pushing competition, sack races, bowls, amateur boat race, rope jumping, as well as a display of artistic pictures, Origami paper wrapping, Kimono and Yukata costume performances, Vietnamese ao dai show; selection of Miss Kimono and a charitable music show for tsunami and earthquake victims in Japan. When night falls, the sculptures from fairytales dance under the moonlight. They share their happiness and love, loneliness and sorrow. Under the moonlight, their bodies entangle and dissolve into the starry night just as the stars appear and disappear under the clouds in the whisper of the wind. The show presents many aspects of life. Pianist Bich Tra is the daughter of movie star Tra Giang and Professor Bich Ngoc. After leaving the Russian Tchaikovsky Institute of Music with a master’s degree, she continued her studies at the British Royal Music Academy. She graduated with the highest marks, earning the Walter MacFarren Award for best student. In 2000, Bich Tra won first prize at an international piano contest, ’Brant in UK’.

19 dead still unidentified after Bangkok blaze - CNN

Investigators posted photos of the unidentified victims of a catastrophic nightclub fire outside a Bangkok police station Friday in hopes that relatives would be able to identify them.

The bodies of 14 women and five men remain unidentified after Thursday morning's blaze at the Santika nightclub, police said. The fire broke out shortly after midnight as about 1,000 revelers were ringing in the new year and marking the club's closing night.

Police said Friday that 59 people were killed. Most of the victims died from smoke inhalation or were trampled in a rush to get out of the club.

Graphic photos of the unidentified dead -- many of whom suffered severe burns -- were posted outside Bangkok's Thong Lor police station, where authorities set up a temporary victim identification center. Relatives wanting to claim a body had to show a dead person's identification or dental records, or could provide blood to match the victim's DNA.

Of the 40 identified fatalities, all but one -- a Singaporean -- were Thais. But hospital officials said 41 of the 229 injured survivors were foreign nationals.

Steven Hall, a Briton who was hospitalized after the fire, told CNN that flames began to spread along the ceiling above the stage where a band and DJ were performing. But some people appeared to believe it was part of the performance.

"At the same time there were people rushing to get out, there were other people who seemed to be lacking a sense of urgency and didn't seem to realize what was going on," Hall said.

The blaze started near a stage where fireworks were being used as part of a performance on the club's closing night, police Maj. Gen. Chokchai Deeprasertwit said. iReport.com: Eyewitness captures scene of deadly aftermath

"It may have been caused from sparks, but we don't know if it was sparks from guests or from the night club's countdown display on the nightclub stage," he said.

Hall said his wife escaped ahead of him, but he got caught in a crowd.

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