Fidel Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 Bomb explodes in downtown Bangkok Blast wounds one; police, bomb squads investigating BANGKOK: -- A bomb exploded near a telephone booth in downtown Bangkok on Saturday, wounding one person, Thai police said. The bomb was planted in a side street of the bustling Thai capital, police spokesman Ronnarong Yangyaen said. The iTV television channel said the slightly wounded person was a 22-year-old man. Police and bomb squads rushed to the scene to investigate the attack and authorities sealed off the area to vehicles and public. "We cannot speculate about the culprit (behind the attack) for the time being," Bangkok's police superintendent Lt. Gen. Adisorn Nontree told reporters. Thailand has been rocked by both political instability following a military coup last September which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and a bloody Muslim insurgency in its southernmost provinces. Nine bombs exploded in the Thai capital on New Year's Eve, killing three people and wounding more than 40. Authorities have yet to unravel the motives behind the attacks or arrest the perpetrators but it is generally believed that politics rather than the insurgency were behind the bombings. --MSNBC 2007-05-05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooNoi Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 So whereabouts in "downtown Bangkok" was the bomb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 So whereabouts in "downtown Bangkok" was the bomb? Near Chitralada Palace the corner of Rajvithi Road Soi 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted May 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 BANGKOK, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Police stepped up security in the Thai capital on Sunday after a small bomb exploded at a public telephone booth late Saturday night, slightly injuring a man. Security was especially tight around the Chitralada Palace, residence of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, near the Ratchvitee Road where the bombing site is located. The bomb exploded at about 9:30 p.m. (1430 GMT) Saturday. A 22-year-old man who was about to make a phone call at the time was wounded by broken glass of the booth. Acting national police chief Seripisut Temiyavej, Metropolitan police chief Adisorn Nonsee, and Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayothin rushed to the scene shortly after the explosion. News network The Nation Sunday quoted Adisorn as saying that police set up road checkpoints around the palace on around-the-clock basis, and police dogs were also deployed to check the areas and government offices around the palace. Adisorn said police bomb experts found that the explosives used in the blast did not have high destructive power, which means the bomb was not aimed to cause high damages or loss of lives. He said the bomb was detonated by a timing device. "We believe it was an attempt to create disturbance." First Army Area Commander Prayuth Chanocha said the military could not yet analyze the motives behind the explosion as more information was needed. He said soldiers in plainclothes and in uniform had been deployed to help police keep security around Bangkok. But the number of deployed soldiers would be doubled following the latest explosion. Apirak said the explosion was like the bombing at the Major Ratchayothin shopping and entertainment complex in downtown Bangkok in early April, which caused no casualties. Earlier, Bangkok downtown area and its suburb were hit by a series of bombings on the night of December 31, 2006 and the early hours of the New Year's Day, causing three deaths and some 40 injuries. The attacks remained unsolved up till today. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/06/content_6063090.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 ah great no any serious monger will ever be caught near there(bomb site near kings residence), so the whoring can go on as if nothing happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David99UK Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 The future Mrs David says not to worry about the Bombs. Thailand not the same as America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 Thailand not same as America but is changing fast so in the near future they will be the same same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibblies Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 A bit of creative (hopeful) thinking here: 1. This will discourage weaker-willed 'nice' tourists but not mongers. Hence mongers will be more important to tourism and so police will loosen monger type things up. 2. Police should have less time to spend on stamping out harmless activities like late-night drinking and showing. 3. There is surely now MORE reason to allow showing - to make it compulsory, in fact. The fewer clothes a person has got on, the harder it is to hide a bomb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waerth Posted May 6, 2007 Report Share Posted May 6, 2007 So another firecracker went off. I do not understand why they target phoneboots .... anyone got a beef with TOT or True ? Although someone was injured, the blast was so powerless relatively that it falls in the firecracker category imho. Waerth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 7, 2007 Report Share Posted May 7, 2007 Easy to step into, pretend to make a call and leave something behind. The target on NY Eve was the rubbish bins. But the rubbish bins have largely disappeared as a result. Still, almost any vocational college student could build a better bomb than these. Somebody is just bored or is trying to stir things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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