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Bangkok death toll: Waiting for a miracle after earthquake building collapse
2025-04-22 08:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
UpdatedWorldAsiaEarthquakesBy Zach HopeUpdated April 4, 2025 9.42am, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox.Bangkok: When I first sat here on the steps of JJ Mall in Bangkok on Saturday, it was not yet a day since the tower across the road collapsed. The steps were coated in a thick layer of fine dust, blasted by the violence of 30-plus storeys of crashing concrete and steel.The eight-lane road and median strip was a staging ground for thousands of rescuers, emergency services, military, volunteers and cooks.Journalists and photographers, hundreds from around the world, crowded around anyone of vague political authority, craning ears against the clamour of whistles, megaphones and machinery to catch news of a mir...
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