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Based on 10 verified sources covering Myanmar, Thailand:

PATTAYA, Thailand – A late-night fire tore through a wood storage warehouse in east Pattaya, prompting a major emergency response with six fire engines battling the flames for nearly an hour. At approximately 11:00 p.m. [1]

PATTAYA, Thailand – A large pre-dawn fire tore through a scrap-buying shop and warehouse in Bo Win subdistrict, Sriracha district, early Monday, Jan 5, destroying the property and multiple vehicles after flames raged for more than two hours. [2]

Indian Police control people gathered outside a manufacturing unit of Solar Industries after a blast in Nagpur on December 17, 2023. [3]

NEW DELHI—A massive blaze raged for hours at a fireworks factory in southern India, killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 Wednesday, police said. [4]

A Chinese state-owned company is helping the Myanmar military regime to manufacture bombs used in deadly airstrikes against resistance forces and civilians across the country, according to a new report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC... [5]

DHAKA, Bangladesh—The garment factory in Bangladesh where a weekend fire killed at least 112 people had been making clothes for Wal-Mart without the giant retailer’s knowledge, claims a spokesman for the US company. [6]

RAYONG, Aug 24 — A fire raged through a polyester factory in Rayong’s Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate late Thursday night, with firefighters taking one hour to control the blaze. No casualties were reported. [7]

Fire gutted a second-hand shop in Pattaya, although one was injured. Seven fire trucks from Pattaya and Najomtien responded to the March 17 blaze at the Surasak junk shop on Soi Khopai off Thepprasit Road. [8]

Sources
[1] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2026-03-04 · 44% match

Massive blaze engulfs wood warehouse in East Pattaya, six fire engines deployed

PATTAYA, Thailand – A late-night fire tore through a wood storage warehouse in east Pattaya, prompting a major emergency response with six fire engines battling the flames for nearly an hour. At approximately 11:00 p.m.

[2] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2026-01-06 · 44% match

Firestorm at dawn guts scrap shop and warehouse in Sriracha

PATTAYA, Thailand – A large pre-dawn fire tore through a scrap-buying shop and warehouse in Bo Win subdistrict, Sriracha district, early Monday, Jan 5, destroying the property and multiple vehicles after flames raged for more than two hours.

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2023-12-18 · 75% match

Nine dead in India factory blast

Indian Police control people gathered outside a manufacturing unit of Solar Industries after a blast in Nagpur on December 17, 2023.

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2012-09-06 · 74% match

Indian Fireworks Factory Blaze Kills 40

NEW DELHI—A massive blaze raged for hours at a fireworks factory in southern India, killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 Wednesday, police said.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2025-07-18 · 43% match

‘Factory of Death’: Report Links Chinese Firms to Myanmar Junta’s Bomb Production

A Chinese state-owned company is helping the Myanmar military regime to manufacture bombs used in deadly airstrikes against resistance forces and civilians across the country, according to a new report by the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2012-11-27 · 53% match

Wal-Mart Distances Itself from Bangladesh Fire

DHAKA, Bangladesh—The garment factory in Bangladesh where a weekend fire killed at least 112 people had been making clothes for Wal-Mart without the giant retailer’s knowledge, claims a spokesman for the US company.

[7] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2012-08-25 · 52% match

Fire at polyester plant in Map Ta Phut, no casualties

RAYONG, Aug 24 — A fire raged through a polyester factory in Rayong’s Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate late Thursday night, with firefighters taking one hour to control the blaze. No casualties were reported.

[8] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2023-03-21 · 50% match

Fire guts Pattaya junk shop in Soi Khopai

Fire gutted a second-hand shop in Pattaya, although one was injured. Seven fire trucks from Pattaya and Najomtien responded to the March 17 blaze at the Surasak junk shop on Soi Khopai off Thepprasit Road.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-10-09 · 43% match

Fire at Bangladesh Garment Factory Kills 10

A fire killed 10 people at a garment factory in Bangladesh about six months after a factory building collapse that killed 1,100 people exposed the harsh and often unsafe conditions in an industry that is the world’s third-largest.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2012-12-04 · 48% match

Bangladesh Fire Victims Want Old Jobs Back

DHAKA, Bangladesh—As 112 of her co-workers died in a garment-factory fire, Dipa Akter got out by jumping from the third floor through a hole made by breaking apart an exhaust fan. Her left leg is wrapped in bandages and she has trouble walking.

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