PHUKET: Two Thai women have been identified as victims of Friday's Tiger Disco inferno, a spokesperson at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok announced today.
The women, among four people killed in the blaze after official closing time, were named as Dongporn Budkor, 32, and Nipawat Sutasorn, 36.
Both were patrons at the Patong disco when fire broke out around 3.55am on Friday, leaving four dead and injuring 11 people.
The DNA of parents was used to identify both women, said police at the hospital's forensics unit.
Dongporn's brother Austapon, who had reported her missing to Phuket police, told Phuketwan: ''She always came home. But we haven't seen her since she went out on Thursday.''
On Tuesday this week, pathologists used dental records to identify the first of the victims, British tourist Michael Pio Tzouvanni, 24, who made a last-minute telephone call to friends as flames consumed the nightclub.
The fourth victim is believed to be a Frenchman. His identification has been slowed because DNA samples have had to be forwarded to Bangkok from France.
All four badly burned bodies were found on the dance floor balcony inside the disco once firemen extinguished the flames.
Authorities believe the use of a flammable foam as insulation on walls around the balcony fed the fire and sped the asphyxiation by smoke of the four dead.
The most serious among the injured, Frenchman Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, has been transferred from Phuket to a hospital in Bangkok for treatment to second degree burns to 40 percent of his body.
A Thai woman, Suri Deeying, 32, who was a staff member at the Tiger Disco, broke an ankle in jumping from the building to escape the blaze.
She has been released from Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket City but is continuing to be treated as an outpatient. Suri told Phuketwan today that once she recovers, she hopes to return to work with Tiger.
Another large Tiger Group venue, Tiger Band Live, is due to open in Patong's famous Soi Bangla tourist walking street tomorrow night, just metres from the cordoned wreck of the Tiger Discotheque.
The investigation into the cause of the blaze is continuing.
The women, among four people killed in the blaze after official closing time, were named as Dongporn Budkor, 32, and Nipawat Sutasorn, 36.
Both were patrons at the Patong disco when fire broke out around 3.55am on Friday, leaving four dead and injuring 11 people.
The DNA of parents was used to identify both women, said police at the hospital's forensics unit.
Dongporn's brother Austapon, who had reported her missing to Phuket police, told Phuketwan: ''She always came home. But we haven't seen her since she went out on Thursday.''
On Tuesday this week, pathologists used dental records to identify the first of the victims, British tourist Michael Pio Tzouvanni, 24, who made a last-minute telephone call to friends as flames consumed the nightclub.
The fourth victim is believed to be a Frenchman. His identification has been slowed because DNA samples have had to be forwarded to Bangkok from France.
All four badly burned bodies were found on the dance floor balcony inside the disco once firemen extinguished the flames.
Authorities believe the use of a flammable foam as insulation on walls around the balcony fed the fire and sped the asphyxiation by smoke of the four dead.
The most serious among the injured, Frenchman Benjamin Tallanotte, 30, has been transferred from Phuket to a hospital in Bangkok for treatment to second degree burns to 40 percent of his body.
A Thai woman, Suri Deeying, 32, who was a staff member at the Tiger Disco, broke an ankle in jumping from the building to escape the blaze.
She has been released from Bangkok Hospital Phuket in Phuket City but is continuing to be treated as an outpatient. Suri told Phuketwan today that once she recovers, she hopes to return to work with Tiger.
Another large Tiger Group venue, Tiger Band Live, is due to open in Patong's famous Soi Bangla tourist walking street tomorrow night, just metres from the cordoned wreck of the Tiger Discotheque.
The investigation into the cause of the blaze is continuing.
