Lan Sak, Thailand AP —Mourners wept and monks prayed at a cremation ceremony Tuesday in a small town in central Thailand for 23 young students and teachers who died in last week’s bus fire on a school field trip.
A large cremation site was set up close to the temple in Lan Sak town whose compound hosts the school that was attended by the victims.
Six teachers and 39 elementary and junior high school students were on the bus when it caught fire on October 1 on a highway in Pathum Thani, a northern suburb of Bangkok.
Transport officials were being scrutinized after information emerged that the bus had passed an inspection about four months before the fire.
Police believe that a gas tube from one of the canisters had come loose, with sparks then setting the leaking gas on fire.
Persons:
Lan, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Surayud Chulanont
Organizations:
Thailand AP, Police, Education Ministry
Locations:
Lan Sak, Thailand, Pathum Thani, Bangkok, Uthai Thani