Senators wear black and stand in silence for 1 minute in mourning over the fire of a sightseeing bus.
Reporters reported that in the Senate meeting today (October 7), with Mr. Mongkol Surassajja, the President of the Senate, acting as the chairman of the meeting, the senators agreed to wear black to mourn the 23 teachers and students from Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School, Uthai Thani Province, who died in the fire on a field trip bus on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road inbound in front of the memorial.
Before the meeting started, Mr. Mongkol said that from the incident, he invited all members to stand in silence for 1 minute with a black and white screen of the meeting room with a message of condolence that said, “The Senate expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the deceased from the fire incident of the school bus with the deepest condolences.” Before entering the agenda of the Senate’s questions to the government.
Source: Thai News Agency