The crane collapse onto a moving express train on Wednesday killed at least 32 people, while the mishap on the expressway a day later left two people dead. The under-construction elevated expressway in Thursday’s incident is situated along Rama II Road, a stretch that’s become infamous for construction delays and fatal incidents.
(Jan 15): Thailand ordered the nation’s biggest construction firm to suspend work at over a dozen projects after two separate crane crashes over two days that left 34 people dead and dozens injured.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul also cancelled Italian-Thai Development Pcl’s contracts to build a section of the Chinese-backed high-speed rail network in northeastern Thailand and an elevated expressway connecting the capital Bangkok to coastal Samut Sakhon province.
