Three hurt from bomb in Bangkok

By Prapruet Rassameearamwong

BANGKOK: Three people were wounded –a woman and two men– in the bombing situation taking place in the central of Bangkok after a man-made bomb were laid, authorities said.

The incident took place on Friday at 10.00 am when a lot of people were in a special event of promoting a new car on the central ground in front of Central Department Store. Police said the bomb was set ablaze via a SIM card in the mobile phone and it wounded three people.

When it exploded, a crowd of people run fast to save their lives and three people, a woman and two men, were rushed to Chulalongkorn Hospital, witnesses said.

“It was such a very dreadful moment that we did not need to remember. We first heard the bang, and then, we saw many people rushing as a chaos to survive. However, we were still lucky because no one died from this situation”, witnesses added.

Mr. Somsak Doodee, the head of Police Commissioner Bangkok, said it was not clear who was behind and the cause of explosion, but he found a crucial piece of evidence similar to the bomb which took place in the South.

He also added a female victim was seriously injured because she had to lose her right leg due to the bomb. And the others were little suffered by a piece of bombing shrapnel in the torso and both legs.

The Vice Minister of Interior, Mr. Jongruk Suwannaphakdee, claimed that even though the true cause was not clear, the main cause would be the insurgency terrorism made by the same group of terrorist in the southern part of Thailand because the material of a man-made bomb was in common.

Police officials also added that insurgents most chose the locations where there were a lot of people as target areas to make bomb attacks since they really wanted to kill a large number of people in one time to expose their opinion against the government.