A concrete awning at a mansion in Bangkok’s Phaya Thai district collapsed on Thursday night, damaging eight vehicles.
The incident occurred at the 10-storey Noble Mansion on Pradiphat 23 off Pradiphat Road in Samsen Nai area, Khanit Chumchuay, a senior thesakit officer (city council inspector), said on Friday. It was reported about 11pm.
A team of thetsakit from Phaya Thai district found that a 20-metre-long cement awning over a parking space, about four metres from the ground, fell off. Six cars and two pickup trucks parked there were damaged, three badly.
Nobody was hurt, Thai media reported.
Residents look at the collapsed concrete awning at Noble Mansion in Bangkok's Phaya Thai district on Thursday night. Six cars and two pickup trucks parked below it were damaged. (Photo from @js100 radio twitter)
Kotchaporn Pongwitthayapanu, 27, a receptionist at a Ratchadami hotel, said she heard the lightning-like sound and an anti-theft alarm rang at around 8.30pm while she was sleeping in her room. She did not come to check as she thought it was raining. When she got up to find something to eat outside, she was shocked to see her Toyota car badly damaged. The awning at the first floor of the building was found collapsed.
Mr Khanit said he had held talks with the mansion’s juristic person about the collapse and was told that the collapsed awning might be dilapidated as the building was built over 20 years ago.
The owner of the building promised to pay compensation for the damage caused to the vehicles, said the senior city councilor.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Public Work Department will be today contacted to investigate the collapsed awning, he added.