‘I must have hope’: the families waiting for news of loved ones after Bangkok tower collapse

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Pluem, 18, had been working for just one month at a construction site in Bangkok’s Chatuchak district. It was her first job since leaving her family home. “She found the work because she wanted to live on her own,” said her mother, Wanpetch Punta, 38. She was hired as an electrician on the 30-storey construction, which was soon to become a new office block for the city’s auditor-general. On Friday, when tremors from the earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar reached the Thai capital, the entire block collapsed in an instant. Eleven people are confirmed to have died in the disaster. Rescue...