8 injured as clothes dryer machine at laundry shop near Bangkok blows up

Eight people were injured when a clothes dryer machine blew up at a laundry shop on the northern outskirts of Bangkok on Monday, police said.

The clothes dryer machine at La-ong Fong Laundry, on Chaeng Wattana road in Pak Kret district of Nonthaburi province, 25 km north of the capital, suddenly exploded and injured the eight people who were on the spot and passers-by and largely damaged the property. The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals.

The blast at the laundry shop sent fragments of twisted steel and other objects flying off in all directions around a row of three-story shophouses.

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)