SURAT THANI, 15 April 2015 – Surat Thani Cooperative is officially reopening today after having closed down in response to the fire at its warehouse on Friday night.
Phisan Mopraman, manager of the cooperative, said on Tuesday that goods have been readied for sale to customers, most of whom wholesalers. He said the quick reopening was needed to avoid regular customers running out of items to resell.
Cooperative staff will be selling merchandise at Building no. 1, which was unaffected by the fire that devastated the warehouse and nearby shops, as well as the cooperative’s food center.
Officials from the Department of Public Works and Town & Country Planning will begin removing some of the debris from the sites of fire today, to allow evidence collection to be expanded.
In the meantime, police are keeping an eye on vehicles, baggage and suspicious-looking individuals at piers in Surat Thani in the wake of the cooperative fire and the car bomb at the province’s Central Festival department store.
