Calamity

BANGKOK — Distributors of a deadly diet pill and a man who lost his sister after ingesting them pressured police to accelerate the investigation Monday morning.

BANGKOK — Fans of a defrocked monk who once led street protests that helped topple a government have come out in force to support him both outside the prison and online.

UBOL RATCHATHANI — The head of the air force said Wednesday that a plane which crashed and killed a squadron leader was was old but operational.

TAK — An air force officer died after ejecting from his plane Tuesday while his co-pilot survived the impact.

BANGKOK — A bus was engulfed by raging flames after it pulled up to a downtown shopping mall Tuesday morning.

BANGKOK — Sparks from a welding torch caused a Friday fire rage in a recently closed dinosaur theme park, according to police.

BANGKOK — A fire broke out Friday afternoon at a former dinosaur-themed amusement park on Sukhumvit Road. There are no reports of injuries.

KRABI — That feeling when you get so big, one duck isn’t enough.

BANGKOK — Police on Thursday said they will rule the death of a Dutch man who fell from a woman’s Bangkok condominium a suicide.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — The body of an elephant found in a pineapple field is the latest in a series of pachyderms killed after they wandered across national park boundaries to forage on farmland, an environmentalist said Thursday.