Last August the Erawan Shrine was the site of a terrorist bomb attack which killed 20 people, mostly tourists.
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At least six devotees, including foreigners, were injured when a woman driving a auto suffered a seizure and crashed it into the fence of Bangkok’s popular Erawan Brahma Hindu temple, hit by a deadly bombing previous year, the police said on Saturday (July 23).
The shrine, a popular stop for East Asian tourists, was thronged with worshippers at the time of the accident, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.
‘We were praying and then suddenly we heard a big noise and we saw a auto coming inside, ‘ Kristy, a 21-year-old tourist from Vietnam, told AFP.
A 21-year-old Vietnamese tourist at the scene added: “We were praying and then suddenly we heard a big noise and we saw a vehicle coming inside”.
The Bangkok Post daily says the injured include several tourists from Indonesia, Singapore and China.
‘We ran like insane.
Police said the Toyota Soluna, which was driven by Kanuengnit Techoran, 54, lost control and crashed through the sidewalk fence at the intersection before it happened to pass through the gate of the shrine and stopped just before it hit the shrine. At I first thought it was a vehicle bomb but everyone was very calm around us’.
Two Uighur men from western China are on trial for the 2015 bombing of Erawan Shrine.
A auto crashed through a fence Friday night and struck worshippers at an outdoor shrine in Thailand.
In the latest incident, the CCTV footage showed the vehicle was in reverse gear after the hit but that was because the daughter was pulling the gear lever or the impact could have been much greater, the police general was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post.
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Police will charge the driver with reckless driving leading to injuries of other people and will take the her medical diagnosis into consideration.
