All 23 bodies of the victims of a bus fire in Thailand finally arrived in their hometown in the central Uthai Thani province on Wednesday as family members and relatives mourned their deaths.
Twenty young children and three of their teachers died when a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok on Tuesday.
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Twenty young children and three of their teachers died when a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire on the outskirts of the capital Bangkok on Tuesday.
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00:00All 23 bodies of the victims of a bus fire in Thailand finally arrived in their hometown
00:07in the central Uthaitani province on Wednesday, as family members and relatives mourned their
00:12deaths.
00:16Twenty young children and three of their teachers died when a school bus carrying more than
00:20forty students and teachers on a field trip caught fire on the outskirts of the capital
00:24Bangkok on Tuesday.
00:26The bus was carrying students and teachers from Wat Khao Phraya Primary School before
00:30the blaze started.
00:51Thai Prime Minister Phetthongtan Shinavatra had pledged that the government will take
00:55care of the medical expenses and provide compensation to the families of the deceased.
01:00Monks and staff at the school in rural Uthaitani, around 200 kilometers north of Bangkok, began
01:05preparations for five days of funeral prayers for the victims, who are expected to be cremated
01:11on October 8.
01:29White and gold coffins were lined up inside a temple as preparations are underway in multiple
01:33temples across Lansak district to hold their funerals in the coming days.
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