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Bangkok blast main suspect’s image captured
BANGKOK (explosion-rocks-central-bangkok-intersection” target=”_blank”>AP) A bomb blast rocked a shrine at a major central Bangkok intersection during the evening rush hour Monday, the government said, reportedly killing more than a dozen people and injuring many others.
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The footage shows the man, who appears to be in his 20s, casually walk among tourists at the shrine, before sitting down at a bench inside the parameter of the site and taking off a backpack.
Police have said they believe the bomb could have been hidden on a motorcycle.
So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the bombing at the Erawan Shrine, while police are refusing to rule anything or anyone out. To add to the shock, another explosion went off Tuesday on a pier on the Chao Pray River that flows through Bangkok, authorities said, forcing the closure of the pier.
The government would set up a “war room” to coordinate the response to the blast, the Nation television channel quoted Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha as saying.
The police chief said he thought the two bombing incidents were not perpetrated by foreigners but by Thais.
The blast on Monday was caused by an improvised explosive device.
As investigators picked through the wreckage of the powerful bomb blast that brought death and destruction to a popular shrine in the Thai capital, mystery surrounded the question of who carried out the shocking attack.
A day after a Bangkok bomb attack left 20 people dead there has been a second explosion in Thailand’s capital but police are reporting that no one was hurt.
“Foreign Office officials are in close contact with the Thai authorities and have offered UK assistance in the investigation of this abhorrent act”.
“It is much clearer who the bombers are, but I can’t reveal more right now”, Prawit said, as he headed into a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning.
The military took over the country in May last year, removing an elected government following months of unrest.
The tourism industry makes up nearly 10% of Thailand’s economy, and the country is counting on Chinese visitors to keep it buoyant. The Buddhist shrine, located near shopping malls and hotels, also is a draw for Hindus and Sikhs from Thailand’s Indian community, CNN said.
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According to the Bangkok Post, someone threw a pipe bomb off a bridge.