Starmer’s spokesperson said the government has “offered its full support to the Israeli embassy in London.”
BANGKOK (AP) — A construction magnate, builders, designers and engineers surrendered to police Friday on criminal negligence charges over the collapse during theof a Bangkok high-rise in which 92 people died.
Premchai Karnasuta, president of Italian-Thai Development Co, the main Thai contractor for the building project, as well as designers and engineers, was among 17 charged with the felony of professional negligence causing death, Bangkok deputy police chief Noppasin Poonsawat said.Noppasin said those who met police on Friday formally denied the charges. Several have previously issued public denials in response to allegations in the media.Ninety-two people were confirmed dead in the rubble of the building that had been under construction. A small number of other people remain unaccounted for.
The building, which was to become a new State Audit Office, was the only one in Thailand to collapse in the earthquake that was centered in neighboring Myanmar.at the site has been halted, though efforts to identify remains through DNA will continue.
Noppasin said at a news conference that evidence and testimony from experts suggested the building plan did not meet
. The Bangkok Post newspaper said police had also determined the project showed “structural flaws in the core lift shaft and substandard concrete and steel.”But Willie Walsh, who heads aviation trade organization IATA, said the episode “begs some serious questions.”
“How is it that critical infrastructure – of national and global importance – is totally dependent on a single power source without an alternative? If that is the case, as it seems, then it is a clear planning failure by the airport,” he said.Walsh said “Heathrow has very little incentive to improve” because airlines, not the airport, have to pay the cost of looking after disrupted passengers.
Friday’s disruption was one of the most serious since the 2010, which shut Europe’s airspace for days.