NAKHON NAYOK, March 31 — Hundreds of Thai firefighters and soldiers battled a forest blaze less than 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Bangkok on Friday as the kingdom grapples with...
NAKHON NAYOK, March 31 — Hundreds of Thai firefighters and soldiers battled a forest blaze less than 100 kilometres from Bangkok on Friday as the kingdom grapples with air pollution that has made more than 1.7 million people ill already this year.
The blaze comes as Thailand grapples with a spike in pollution caused in part by agricultural burning that has seen the air in some northern cities rank among the dirtiest and most hazardous in the world this week. The fire is not threatening any major population centres but it is close to the edge of the Khao Yai National Park, the kingdom’s oldest national park and part of a Unesco-listed forest complex stretching to the Cambodian border.
“PM Prayut and minister of defence have closely monitored the wildfire situation in Nakon Nayok and ordered relevant organisations to help putting out the fire urgently,” government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri said.
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