THAILAND-BLAST/HOSPITAL NEWSER Thai authorities to send seven foreigners' bodies back to their home countries

Record ID: 143345

  • Title: THAILAND-BLAST/HOSPITAL NEWSER Thai authorities to send seven foreigners' bodies back to their home countries
  • Date: 20th August 2015
  • Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (AUGUST 20, 2015) (REUTERS) NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) COMMUNICATION POLICE OFFICER AT POLICE GENERAL HOSPITAL, VIROJ LAPPAIBOONWONG, SAYING: "There are five mainland Chinese and two from Hong Kong, with one of them holding a British passport, to be sent back." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEPUTY CHIEF OF MEDICAL TEAM AT POLICE GENERAL HOSPITAL, WITOON NITIWARANGKUL, SAYING: "So many injured people that have not enough information for us to identify them and in some that have a dead body, still don't have the information intact because this bomb is really completely a perfect bomb, many evidences already destroyed." NEWS CONFERENCE ENDING, DOCTORS STANDING UP
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Thailand
  • Country: Thailand
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: Police officials said on Thursday (August 20) that there were still a total of seven foreigners' bodies, killed in the Bangkok bomb blast, to be transferred back to their home countries.
    "There are five mainland Chinese and two from Hong Kong, with one of them holding a British passport, to be sent back," Viroj Lappaiboonwong, communication police officer from the Police General Hospital told reporters in a news conference.
    The bomb attack on a popular shrine in central Bangkok on Monday (August 17) evening has killed 20 people, and wounded over 100 others.
    The Erawan shrine is particularly popular with tourists from China and other East Asian countries, and 11 foreigners were among the dead.
    Police officials said the condition of some of the bodies had made them difficult to identify.
    "So many injured people that have not enough information for us to identify them and in some that have a dead body, still don't have the information intact because this bomb is really completely a perfect bomb, many evidences already destroyed," said Witoon Nitiwarangkul, deputy chief of the medical team at the Police General Hospital.
    Thai authorities said on Thursday that international terrorists were not suspected of the bomb attack, as police said they believed at least 10 plotters were involved.
    There has been no claim of responsibility for the blast at the shrine crowded with tourists, which the government has said was designed to wreck the economy. Authorities have not blamed any group for carrying out Thailand's worst bombing.
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