THAILAND: A bomb kills two people and wounds at least 22 in a busy shopping district in the centre of the Thai capital Bangkok

Record ID: 357743

  • Title: THAILAND: A bomb kills two people and wounds at least 22 in a busy shopping district in the centre of the Thai capital Bangkok
  • Date: 23rd February 2014
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF MILITARY STANDING POLICE STANDING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WATCHING VARIOUS OF OFFICIALS CHECKING SCENE (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) WITNESS AT SCENE SONTHAYA CORNER SAYING: "I saw a family injured. The kids are seriously injured as well as a mother, in total three people. The woman selling cloth sustained serious neck injuries." OFFICIAL TAKING PHOTO EVIDENCE ON GROUND STALLS
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Thailand
  • Country: Thailand
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA6GPLIXRR00KLKN981W04KYUTD
  • Story Text: A bomb killed two people and wounded at least 22 in a busy shopping district in the Thai capital on Sunday (February 23).
    The incident happened hours after supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised to get tough with demonstrators paralysing parts of the city. But it was not immediately clear who was responsible.
    The bomb went off near one of the few large protest sites remaining, leaving a trail of blood and sandals on the streets near the huge Central World shopping mall, much of it in front of a shop selling tee-shirts emblazoned "Land of Smile".
    Three children suffered serious head injuries, Erawan Medical Center, which monitors Bangkok hospitals, said. One died.
    A witness at the scene described what he saw.

    "I saw a family injured. The kids are seriously injured as well as a mother, in total three people. The woman selling cloth sustained serious neck injuries," said Sonthaya Corner, a witness at the scene.
    The crisis pits mostly middle-class anti-government protesters from Bangkok and the south against supporters of Yingluck from the rural north and northeast of the country.
    Both sides have blamed the other for instigating violence. Armed provocateurs have a history of trying to stir tension in politically polarized Thailand and both protesters and the police have also blamed violence on shadowy third parties.
    Leaders of the pro-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) had vowed to "deal with" anti-government leader Suthep Thaugsuban, setting the scene for possible confrontation between pro- and anti-government groups.
    Earlier on Saturday night (February 22), gunmen shot at an anti-government protest stage and threw explosive devices in the Khao Saming district of the eastern province of Trat, killing a five-year-old girl and wounding 41 people.
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