Pub fire investigators focus on poorly maintained exits

A shoe lies abandoned on the pavement outside an exit door of the burnt-out pub on Monday. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill)

Police investigating the deadly Na Ladprao beer hall fire are looking into whether the exits were properly marked, positioned and maintained after disoriented, trapped customers died in the thick smoke and flames that blacked out the pub.

National police chief Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch said at the fire scene in Chatuchak district on Monday the Rong Beer Na Ladprao beer hall was in a rectangular one-storey building. It faced onto Lat Phrao Road and there were twin doors.