easybullet3 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) i live at Pratunam (a few minutes walk from Central World). i'm in my room and I just heard the biggest Blast Noise (a huge Boom). NOT THUNDER! (much louder) and just one. it was so loud, i could feel the vibration of the sound waves through my stomach a bit ! just 5 minutes ago. i have no idea what it was. did anyone else hear it ? i dont hear any ambulances.. so what could it have been ? ======= UPDATE (15 minutes later) ======= Ok, I can see Smoke coming up around Central World.. (near to Zen) ratchaprasong. (but I cant see the street, so i cant give any details) and I can hear SIrens now comming. from the sound of the blast, I can imagine it is big. but I live up in the air (with a clear view of the area), maybe the sound carries better to my condo. anyway.. it took a whole for emergency services to come. talk about a pathetically slow response time... (around 15 minutes until I heard the first siren!!) honestly,, for a small city (with police and mabulances near by,, that is a bad response time) ======= UPDATE (25 minutes later) ======= Now I can hear Major sirens and I can see tonnes of ambulances adn pollice filling up the road outside central world. BUT: typically thai style.. so slow.. and no attempts to divert traffic. Bangkok traffic going past central world as normal (despite huge bomb blast). Edited August 17, 2015 by easybullet3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Now reporting on news networks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartender100 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Many dead according to Jonathan Head, at the erawan shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkom Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) Heard from a friend that it was a car bomb. Edit: Now they say gas tank exploded Edited August 17, 2015 by arkom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneyboy Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Latest TV pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Familyonthemove Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) Car bomb at Ratchaprasong junction near to the Amarin Shrine. I heard that 5 were injured and one dead. Taxi damaged. It rattled the windows of my office in Soi Chidlom. Edited August 17, 2015 by Familyonthemove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingalfred Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 BBC Jonathan Head reporting 12 people killed next to the shrine on the ratchaprasong intersection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazey Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Just hit the BBC, reporter stated he saw at least 11 bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Nothing on Bangkok post of course, Reading http://www.bbc.com/news now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rijit Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Dont like to speculate.,, but if its a bomb whose the likely suspects , i suppose the red shirts or the southern separatists ? rijit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiBiker Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Dont like to speculate... Then don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Dont like to speculate.,, but if its a bomb whose the likely suspects , i suppose the red shirts or the southern separatists ? rijit This big, I doubt the red shirts they are violent but have never done anything this violent. If they have then I can see the junta staying in power longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Say the word 'Muslim' don't be shy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easybullet3 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 (edited) i'm not going to go outside and have a look, so I cant report any further. but its really buzzing with sirens. and yes,, i felt the blast sound (vibrations of it) through my body in my condo a few mins walk from central world (at pratunam).. tonnes of emergency services now I can see... but really.. I must say how pathetically SLOW they were to arrive. (especially as its a couple of minutes drive away). at least Emergency Bikes should have been the first ones to the scene... (but I heard NOTHING until at least 15 minutes after the blast). that in itself is a story.. the shocking response time! it has taken more than 40 minutes (since the blast) to free-up a lane of traffic so that emergency services vehicles can hurry to and from the blast site. Edited August 17, 2015 by easybullet3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1439814244 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Please continue here: A powerful bomb exploded near Rajprasong intersection wounding 20 people. Closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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