What the records say
- When
- 1997
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 12.90° N, 100.87° E
- Description
- Fire at the Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel in eastern Thailand on 11 July 1997
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire
1997 fire at a hotel in eastern Thailand
The Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel was a 450-room luxury hotel situated in a 17-story high-rise building on the northern end of Jomtien Beach, 110 kilometres (68 mi) south of Bangkok. At approximately 10:20 local time, 11 July 1997, a fire ignited as a result of a faulty liquid propane gas cylinder in a ground floor buffet of the hotel.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire at Pattaya, Thailand's worst hotel fire, kills 90.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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