Late Night Grenade Explosions In Bangkok Injures One

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Late-night explosions injure a man

BANGKOK: -- Explosions have been reported at NBT and a massage parlour

Two bombs exploded in Bangkok late Sunday night, targetting NBT station as a famous massage parlour, police said. One person was injured.

There was no injury in the NBT attack which took place just before midnight. A grenade was thrown by a man on a motorcycle and landed in a ravine just outside the station's wall.

The explosion at the Poseidon massage parlour badly damaged a car, twisted and blackened wreckage of which was shown on TV. A parlour worker was slightly injured.

-- The Nation 2010-04-05

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This will be translated by some foreign media as "continues war in Bangkok".

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This report doesn't indulge us with many details does it.... Where is the NBT station located in Bangkok?

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Grenade incident at NBT TV, no casualties; 1 hurt by car bomb at massage parlour

BANGKOK (TNA) -- No casualties were reported in a midnight grenade attack on Thai state television NBT, the second incident 10 days, but a parking attendant was wounded in a car bombing Sunday night at Poseidon massage parlour in the capital's Ratchadapisek area.

Military and police investigators inspected the front gate of NBT television after a motorcycle passenger hurled what was believed to be an M-67 grenade into the station compound on Vibhavadirangsit Road near midnight, but the projectile fell into a canal near a security tent and no one was injured.

Investigators found the trigger of a grenade at the scene. Security personnel at NBT did not notice the assailants as there was heavy traffic at that time and the motorcycle passed through at high speed.

There was no closed circuit television to trace the assailants, but police believe they may be the men who threw a grenade at the station on March 27, injuring a soldier and a security official.

Meanwhile, a bomb hidden inside a car parked at the Poseidon massage parlour in Ratchadapisek was exploded at around midnight, wounding one person.

Initial investigation, according to police, indicated that the bomb was a rod of TNT explosive, weighing 2 to 5 kilogrammes and placed under the passenger seat beside the driver seat as many traces of bomb powder were found there. The bomb severely damaged the car and a nearby vehicle.

Nearby windows were shattered, and a boy working as a parking attendant was wounded in the stomach and was sent to hospital.

The car's license plate showed it was registered in Chiang Mai, and police said it was genuine.

The incident was silimar to a car bombing in the Suthisarn area nine years ago, said police.

Witnesses told police that a man wearing short pants and a black jacket parked the car at Poseidon, staying in the car for 10 minutes before leaving.

In Chiang Mai, an M-79 grenade was fired from a passing pickup at a Makro wholesaler outlet on the Superhighway at around 2am on Monday morning.

No one was injured as the grenade failed to explode and expert successfully defused it.

Police said the grenade fell on the parking lot, 100 metres from the store.

It was the ninth grenade incident in Chiang Mai. (TNA)

-- TNA 2010-04-05

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