Panic gripped a hotel in Thailand’s Pattaya city on Thursday night after a fire broke out on the rooftop, forcing hundreds of guests to flee through smoke-filled corridors.
Firefighters and rescue workers rushed to the eight-storey JA Plus Hotel shortly after 9pm local time as flames spread from a rooftop restaurant to the seventh floor, according to local reports. Authorities said about 240 guests were staying in roughly 120 of the hotel’s 173 rooms when the blaze erupted, according to the Bangkok Post.
