Overview
- The health ministry confirmed 32 deaths and three people missing, with 64 injured taken to hospitals and seven in serious condition.
- About 195 people were aboard when the train derailed and caught fire after a construction crane toppled onto it in Sikhio district, Nakhon Ratchasima.
- Rescuers worked into the evening to free trapped passengers, with operations halted at times due to fires and reported chemical leaks and with electric doors complicating escapes.
- The site forms part of the Bangkok–Laos–Kunming high-speed rail project, a roughly $5 billion Belt and Road initiative led by China.
- An expert and officials cited Italian-Thai Development’s responsibility, the company pledged compensation, and the prime minister called for accountability measures including potential blacklisting of repeat offenders.