Police Track Components Of Bomb Used In Bangkok

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Police track components of bomb used in Bangkok
PATINYA IAMTAN
THE NATION



BANGKOK: -- Police investigating Sunday night's bomb blast in Bangkok's Soi Ramkhamhaeng 43/1 suspect the bomb components were purchased at a local store in the past two to three days.

The motive for the bombing, which injured seven people, was still unclear.

The bomb was not so powerful, so it didn't aim to kill, and it was different than the type of bombs used in the Southern unrest, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said yesterday.

Police were looking into a street vendors' conflict or possibly fighting by rival political groups, and they haven't totally ruled out the Deep South conflict.

Khamronwit said police were gathering evidence, checking on groups that had something to gain from the bombing and reviewing security camera footage.

SECURITY BOOSTED

Security was strengthened in community areas as well as such key places as the Government House, Parliament and the Constitutional Court.

Security was also boosted at the privy councillors' and ambassadors' residences, the prime's minister's residence in the Lat Phrao area, Victory Monument, the Ratchaprasong Intersection, shopping malls, the Privy Council's House and the Defence Ministry in Phra Nakhon district.

Khamronwit said Hua Mark police had interviewed Bangkok Metropoli-tan Administration officials and law-enforcement officers about street vendors and footpath stall concessions as causes of possible conflict.

Police also searched nearby houses and apartments and checked shops for the origin of headless two-inch nails used in the bomb.

Some suspected components - wire, duct tape and batteries - were bought from the Big C Ramkham-haeng branch in the past two to three days.

Other shops selling possible bomb components, especially gunpowder or fireworks, were also being checked.

Three of the seven bombing victims remained in hospital and were in stable condition, police spokesman Piya Uthayo said.


-- The Nation 2013-05-29

[jaidam]

There may be a rush of claimants for the bomb, seeing as the last sponsor of bombings in Bangkok was rewarded with a plummy PTP deputy house speaker job.

[thaicbr]

Maybe it wasn't a bomb at all. Just one of the Ban Fai rockets finally landing

Sent from my i-mobile i-STYLE Q6

[OzMick]

So what happened to the teacher arrested 1 hour after the bang?

[Bellweather]

Are nails so readily identifiable or just more BIB BS ?

[Mampara]

Well, there could be several reasons for this, firstly it could be some vendor that refused to pay extortion money to the mafia or gang that controls that part of the street, secondly it could be the some frustrated shop owner who was tired of having the entrance to his shop blocked by street vendors, and thirdly it could be some member of the public who was tired of always being forced to put his life on the line by walking on the road because the sidewalk/footpath is so packed with vendors that people have to walk in a slow moving row to get anywhere, which the authorities are well aware of but do nothing about, possibly out of fear of loosing votes or some tea-money.

[Mampara]

So what happened to the teacher arrested 1 hour after the bang?

He was possibly beaten and interrogated as a terrorist and then quietly deported.

[Payboy]

So what happened to the teacher arrested 1 hour after the bang?

They had to let him go or risk detention.

[Halion]

What a highly subjective and concocted peice of journalistic crap. Duck tape and batteries from Big C. Do they not realize that this sort of reporting makes a laughing stock out of both the journalist and the RTP

[Payboy]

If the BIB dig deeper they may even find that some of those nails were originally used in the crucifixion around 1AD. Then all clues would lead to Pontius Pilate as the obvious culprit. Case closed.

[Thait Spot]

What group is it that has a history of violence and a history of attacking BBL branches...........

[johnlandy]

What a highly subjective and concocted peice of journalistic crap. Duck tape and batteries from Big C. Do they not realize that this sort of reporting makes a laughing stock out of both the journalist and the RTP

Makes this guy, 'Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang' sound like a nuclear physicist when he probably struggles to find his weiner when he goes to the toilet

And as for making a laughing stock out of the RTP they don't need any help. The majority are buffoons and couldn't find their way out of a 3.0 x 3.0 room even if the door was festooned with lights.

They are purely and simply a JOKE

[rbrooks]

The bomb was not so powerful, so it didn't aim to kill, and it was different than the type of bombs used in the Southern unrest, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said yesterday. Three of the seven bombing victims remained in hospital and were in stable condition, police spokesman Piya Uthayo said. I really don't think the Metro Police Chief knows what he is talking about. A bomb and fireworks are in different categories usually resulting in death and injury when people are a target with bombs and just a bunch of oohs and aahs when people are close to fireworks.

[Thai at Heart]

It's actually quite hilarious that the writer doesn't realise how stupid these statements are and doesn't embellish them a little so that the speaker doesn't sound quite so stupid.

[MikeOboe57]

The bomb was not so powerful, so it didn't aim to kill, and it was different than the type of bombs used in the Southern unrest, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said yesterday. Three of the seven bombing victims remained in hospital and were in stable condition, police spokesman Piya Uthayo said. I really don't think the Metro Police Chief knows what he is talking about. A bomb and fireworks are in different categories usually resulting in death and injury when people are a target with bombs and just a bunch of oohs and aahs when people are close to fireworks.

I don't want to spoil the BiB's wild goose chase, but when someone packs a bomb with "headless two-inch nails" then the Metropolitan Police Chief's conclusion that "it didn't aim to kill" is, politely put, not very plausible.

Maybe the intention was to limit the kill radius, or the bomber was inexperienced and underestimated the required charge, or he could not carry a heavier load to the target site.