| Submit your comments on this article |
| Southeast Asia |
| Two 'homemade' bombs explode in Bangkok, one injured |
| 2015-02-02 |
[Al Ahram] Two "homemade" bombs went kaboom!near a popular shopping mall in downtown Bangkok on Sunday evening, leaving one man with minor injuries, police said. The blasts took place at around 8 pm (1300 GMT) near the busy shopping centre well visited by tourists and local residents, with police initially reporting they were caused by an electrical fault. Later Sunday national police front man Prawut Thavornsiri told AFP further investigations had revealed the kabooms were triggered by two IEDs (improvised bombs). "Two homemade bombs went kaboom!on a walkway between Siam BTS (skytrain) and Siam Paragon mall. They were hidden behind electric controls," he said, adding one man had received minor injuries. Further investigations are under way, he added, without providing more details. An uneasy calm had descended upon the Thai capital since last May when the army seized power after months of often violent street protests that led to the ousting of ex-premier Yingluck Shinawatra's government. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 They were just trying to replicate this experiment.... |
| Posted by: Count Galeazzo Smith8994 2015-02-02 19:02 |
| #2 I've lived here in Bangkok for almost 15 years now. 'No real idea of who planted the two small explosive devices. They were evidently amateurish, and neither designed nor placed to cause much damage or injury. The local community that I frequent - both ex-pats and Thais - tend to default toward believing that this may have been a Thai (military) government "false flag" action, to give the governing junta a reasonable excuse to extend ongoing (albeit fairly benign) martial law. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2015-02-02 11:06 |
| #1 Just in time for our vacation as we arrived today. Coincidence ?? The Germans would like you to think so. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2015-02-02 03:33 |