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

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…