Two people were reportedly killed and at least three others were wounded. “Ask yourself who would want to hurt the country like this?”
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Seven bombing attacks over the last 24 hours have shaken Thailand.
Thai police later said they believe the blasts were acts of local sabotage and were not linked to any global militant group.
“Thailand has no territorial or religious quarrel with anyone”.
Those twin explosions were detonated by mobile device, police said. “Therefore we must reiterate and reinforce that this is local sabotage and an internal matter”, he added.
Further south, another explosion killed a municipal worker in Surat Thani.
(Daily News via AP) The site of one of two bomb blasts which occurred on August 11, 2016, in Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, Thailand, in this still image taken from video August 12, 2016.
On Friday morning, six explosions occurred in three locations.
At least two people are confirmed dead and at least 15 others are injured, authorities said. According to Khaosod, one of the fires was reported at the Bang Niang Market in Phang Nga Province.
One person died and three people were wounded in one of the Friday morning blasts near a clock tower in Hua Hin, deputy police spokesperson Police Colonel Krisana Pattanacharoen told reporters in Bangkok.
Hua Hin is home to the summer palace of Thailand’s revered royal family and the blast came on the eve of Queen Sirikit’s 84th birthday and just ahead of the first anniversary of a Bangkok shrine bombing that killed 20.
Pol. Lt Chaiyot Tisawong, an officer in Hua Hin, said 10 of the injured were foreigners.
“At this time it would be irresponsible to comment on the motive, but we are investigating all possible leads”.
Edwin Wiek, a resident of Hua Hin who was at the scene, told dpa that foreign tourists were among the injured.
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Thai police say a wave of bomb blasts in the central and southern parts of the country is not linked to Islamic terrorism.
“Right now, we have to focus on not creating panic among the people and restoring law and order”, he told reporters.
Trang is on the fringes of Thailand’s deep south, where a low-level Muslim separatist insurgency had killed more than 5,000 people since 2004.
The two bombs that went off in Hua Hin on Thursday evening were hidden in potted plants and went off within 30 minutes of each other in the bar district of the popular beach town. Many Thais either return home or spend the extended break at seaside resorts like Hua Hin.
Thais voted less than a week ago in a referendum to adopt a military-backed constitution, the first test of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha at the ballot box since he seized power in a coup in May 2014.
But the generals have been unable to quell a festering Islamic insurgency in the three most southern provinces – almost 1000 kilometres away from Hua Hin.
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However, the bombs were not particularly big and most beach resorts were on high alert after a bomb was found in Phuket Wednesday night, Paul Quaglia, a Thailand security expert and 20-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, told CNN.
