BANGKOK: A Thai court docket issued arrest warrants on Thursday for 17 folks over the collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper that fell in a significant earthquake, killing dozens of staff.The 30-storey tower being constructed to accommodate the State Audit Workplace was diminished to rubble in seconds when a 7.7-magnitude quake struck neighbouring Myanmar on March 28, killing hundreds in Thailand’s wartorn neighbour.The tower was the one constructing in Bangkok to break down, and the velocity and suddenness with which it fell has raised questions concerning the high quality of the development.“A Thai court docket at this time issued arrest warrants in opposition to three teams, comprising 17 folks, associated to the collapse,” Police Lieutenant-Basic Siam Boonsom informed AFP.He didn’t give particulars of these focused by the warrants, however Thai media stories stated they embody employees from Italian-Thai Improvement (ITD), one of many companies constructing the tower.Authorities say they’ve recovered 89 our bodies from the rubble of the collapsed tower, with seven folks nonetheless unaccounted for.The challenge was a three way partnership between ITD, one in every of Thailand’s greatest building companies, and a Chinese language conglomerate.Preliminary exams by Thai security officers final month on metal rebars, struts used to strengthen concrete, recovered from the positioning discovered that a number of the steel used was substandard.
