In the early hours of Sunday morning fire brigade units were called to the scene of a fire which had taken broken out above a karaoke bar in a shophouse in Naklua.
            By the time firefighters arrived the blaze had taken hold of the first floor and spread to two adjoining units. Officers took more than 30 minutes to bring the fire under control.
The blaze soon put an end to the murdering of popular tunes by inebriated customers. Fortunately, those who were asleep in the upstairs room at the time (despite the din of the music from below), managed to escaped unharmed.
The cost of the fire is estimated at one million baht although part of this is the water damage suffered by a number of innocent karaoke machines.