Another blast rocks Bangkok

A man threw a bomb from a bridge in central Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Witnesses said the young man, around 20 years, hurled an explosive targeting a crowd, but it caused no injuries. The bomb explosion came a day after a twin explosion at a shrine in the Thailand’s capital near a five-star hotel killed 27 people, including nine foreigners. On Tuesday, the unidentified man threw the explosive near a busy pier on the city’s Chao Phraya River and it landed in a canal, said Colonel Natakit Siriwongtawan, deputy police chief of Klongsan district. "If it did not fall in the water then it certainly would have caused fatalities," he said, according to a news agency.
- mbz