Suthep: M79 Grenades Fired From Behind King Rama Vi Statue

[321niti123]

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban Thursday night urged Silom people to stay away from the red-shirt people at the Lumpini Park by more than 400 metres.

He said the M79 grenades, which injured more than 75 people on Silom Road, were fired from behind the King Rama VI statute where the red-shirt protesters were demonstrating.

He said if the protesters were staying away more than 400 metres from the line of red-shirt protesters, they would be safe from the M79 attacks.

Suthep said it was too dangerous for police and troops to go into the rally site at the park to try to arrest the assailants at night.

The Nation

-- The Nation (Date Unsure, not on the website)

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I hope this one wont be deleted by the moderators

TO MODS: Can you put this in news it comes from a respectable newspapers/agency, but if this topic is already in news please give me the link thanks (The link : http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Suthe...-30127781.html)

[monkfish]

Sala Daeng grenades

proven to be shot from Chulalongkorn Hospital

BANGKOK, 5 May 2010 (NNT) – M79 grenade attacks at Sala Daeng

Intersection on 22 April 2010 have been proven to be shot from

Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, according to the Central Institute of

Forensic Science Director, Khunying MD Pornthip Rojanasunan.

The director stated that M79 grenades against protestors of the Alliance

of Patriots that day could have been launched from either the seventh

or the eighth floor of King Bhumibol Building in Chulalongkorn Hospital

based on traces and damages found at the scene.

Khunying MD Pornthip added that nitrate, a compound of the grenade, was

found at both the seventh and the eighth floor of the building while a

bullet hole was also found on the outside mirror of the women's restroom

on the eighth floor.

The director however could not conclude if the grenade attacks at BTS

Sala Daeng station and in front of Bank of Ayudhya near Dusit Hotel were

instigated by the same perpetrators or not due to different projectile

directions.

Khunying MD Pornthip reasoned that all CCTVs inside King Bhumibol

Building inside the hospital were damaged, and therefore no traces of

the unrest perpetrators could be tracked.

http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news.php?id=255305050012

Could be related?

Edited May 5, 2010 by monkfish

[Changian]

These were the unguided 'point n' shoot' grenades that normally only go in straight lines but on this occasion flew up from ground level, round the statue, over ( or under) the overpass, past the footbridge packed with army/police, dodged the supports of the skytrain station and lines and came down onto the roof of the station in close formation from above. (Almost as if they had been fired from an elevated vantage point far closer to the station.)

Hmmmm

[lannarebirth]

These were the unguided 'point n' shoot' grenades that normally only go in straight lines but on this occasion flew up from ground level, round the statue, over ( or under) the overpass, past the footbridge packed with army/police, dodged the supports of the skytrain station and lines and came down onto the roof of the station in close formation from above. (Almost as if they had been fired from an elevated vantage point far closer to the station.)

Hmmmm

Which I believe BM "cmsally" pointed out very soon after the events.

[bonobo]

As has been posted over and over, we are trying to keep the political threads out of the General Forum.  We have numerous threads open in the News Forum where everyone is most welcome to post their views.

Thanks.

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