‘I must have hope’: the families waiting for news of loved ones after Bangkok tower collapse

‘I must have hope’: the families waiting for news of loved ones after Bangkok tower collapse

Rescue workers in Thai capital are frantically searching for 78 missing amid rubble as their loved ones watch on

Pluem, 18, had been working for just one month at a construction site in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district. It was her first job since leaving her family home. “She found the work because she wanted to live on her own,” said her mother, Wanpetch Punta, 38.

She was hired as an electrician on the 30-storey construction, which was soon to become a new office block for the city’s auditor general.

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