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Bomb Diffused In Bathroom Of Big C

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Bomb defused in Big C restroom

Published on February 15, 2005

A home-made bomb was found in a toilet at the Big C Supercentre’s branch in this northern province before the store opened for business yesterday morning, police and store officials said.

A security guard found the explosive device in a men’s room on the ground floor of the store before sealing off the area and notifying police, Big C said in a statement released yesterday.

Captain Jamras Prakong, a bomb-disposal officer from Chiang Mai who was called in to defuse the explosive device, said that he believed the bomb was composed by a professional, someone with knowledge about explosives.

The bomb was put in a hair-gel canister and wrapped with wires.

Jamras said the bomb-disposal unit was unable to defuse the device by hand so they decided to fire high-pressure water jets at it to destroy its circuitry.

Maj-General Kraisorn Rungsang, the Lampang police commissioner, said an investigation was under way to determine the possible motives. He said the store’s management was advised to beef up security at the premises.

Local executives of the Lampang store declined to give any details about the incident. Later in the day, Big C management in Bangkok released a statement explaining the incident.

“The Big C Supercentre Lampang has already reopened,” the statement said

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First guess would be a renewing of the 'security wars', groups competing for the BigC, Carrefour, et all, store security contracts. Happened in Chiang Mai a few years ago, too. Only it wasn't diffused... At that time, Maj. Chalermchai Matchiklan, currently under a death sentence for killing a governor, was involved in that business, and was suspected in the CM bombings. Since his boss became a Senator and he went to prison, CM hasn't had any such reported problems until now... Or maybe the security business i Lampang is controlled by a different miltary or police group.

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