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Thai prosecutors on Thursday indicted 23 suspects including a construction tycoon and a Chinese state-owned firm for violations that led to the collapse of a building during a powerful earthquake, killing nearly a hundred workers.

The partially built 30-story State Audit Office tower in Bangkok was the only building to collapse from tremors emanating from the powerful 7.7 magnitude quake in neighboring Myanmar on March 28. At least 95 people were killed in the incident.

The construction of the State Audit Office building was a joint venture between Italian-Thai Development, one of Thailand’s largest construction companies, and China Railwa

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