Grenades in the heart of Bangkok
Three dead and seventy injured
BANGKOK – Attack today Bangkok. Five grenades were thrown into the financial district of the Thai capital: three people died and seventy were injured, two of which were foreigners. Four in all are in serious condition. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that there are no Italians involved.
The grenades were thrown from an M-79, the same type of weapon used against soldiers in the red-shirt anti-government demonstration, which caused 25 deaths on 10 April. A grenade exploded near the headquarters of the Charoen Pokphand Group, the largest farm in the country, located next to the Dusit Thani Hotel. In the same area of the Thai capital there are about 500 pro-government protesters and not far away are the tens of thousands of red shirts that support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, to whom the army had ordered to leave this morning.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiv urgently convened the Cabinet Council, to make a point about the state of security in the country. The government reiterated that it was from the area controlled by the red shirts that the attacks arrived.
(April 22, 2010)
