Britons hurt in an horrific New Year's Eve inferno in a Bangkok nightclub are today still receiving treatment for their injuries.

At least 61 people were killed and more than 200 injured, four of them British, in the stampede to flee the blaze which broke out at the Santika Club just after midnight yesterday.

Alex Wargacki, 29, from London, is in intensive care at Bangkok's private Samitivej Sukhumvit Hospital.

The foreign exchange trader, who suffered burns and smoke inhalation during the panicked evacuation of the building, said he was lucky to be alive.

He was pulled from the burning club after collapsing as he tried to escape. He is now on a respirator to help him breathe.

Mr Wargacki, who has lived in Bangkok for four years, told reporters: "I felt myself going unconscious. I knew something was happening to my lungs. I could not breathe. I blacked out and fell to the floor.

"I woke up and heard this voice saying. Come on. Come on this way'. Then I felt myself being dragged towards an exit. A crowd of people parted in front of me and then I was out in the open air.

"Had it not been for this voice with the hand of an angel I would not be alive today."

Mr Wargacki said he felt his condition had improved, but he was having trouble with his voice. He said another Briton, Oliver Smart, was being treated in the bed next to him in the intensive care unit.

Another injured Briton, Steven Hall, 35, from Cardiff, described the dramatic scenes as the fire suddenly spread from the stage to take hold of the club.

Some revellers appeared to think the flames were part of the show and hesitated to escape, he said.