Exploding manhole cover severely injures motorcyclist
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Exploding manhole cover severely injures motorcyclist

A screenshot captured from Channel 8 shows the explosion billowing from a utilities  tunnel in Muang district of Lampang province. A food delivery woman n a motorcycle passing over the manhole was severely injured.
A screenshot captured from Channel 8 shows the explosion billowing from a utilities tunnel in Muang district of Lampang province. A food delivery woman n a motorcycle passing over the manhole was severely injured.

LAMPANG: An explosion in a utilities tunnel blew off a manhole cover that severely injured a woman motorcyclist on Thursday afternoon.

The explosion occurred in a tunnel on Tha Khrao Noi Road in tambon Sob Tui of Muang district about 1.35pm as Ratee-anothai Lomwandee, 21, was passing over the access cover on her mototcycle.

Surveillance camera footage showed the woman and her bike being blown up into the air. When she fell back on the road another motorcycle ran over her unconscious body.

Ms Ratee-anothai suffered a five-centimetre-long cut on her chin, a broken nose and cheekbone, and extensive bruising to her body.

Officials said the iron manhole cover, one metre in diameter, provided access to TOT communication cables. The tunnel was flooded with hot water immediately after the explosion.

Lampang governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn said he had ordered an immediate investigation. Samples of water were collected from the tunnel for testing.

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