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Police offer Bt1million reward for last weekend's bombing incident clues
BANGKOK, Feb 20 (TNA) -- Thai police have offered Bt1 million reward to informers which could lead to arrests for each bombing incident over the last weekend in central Bangkok in which an explosion erupted near Government House and a bomb discovery at the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions, police said.
Believing that people must have seen the culprits responsible for the incidents, police on Saturday decided to offer the rewards as well as trying to find the bombers from their closed-circuit surveillance cameras.
The grenade attack occurred late Saturday night at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, 50 metres from Government House.
Police now believed that the M79 grenade launcher was fired from the fourth platform of a horse racing course, about 390 metres from the university, while 189 particles of the grenade found scattered were being probed by police bomb experts.
On Sunday, police bomb experts defused an explosive device hidden in a cardboard carton at the Supreme Court.
Both incidents took place as the Court will hand down verdict on Bt76.6 billion assets seizure of fugitive, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra on February 26. The assets are being frozen by the government.
Police have tightened security ahead of the ‘Judgement Day’ and the headquarters of the ruling Democrat Party is no exception.
Director of the Democrat Party Nattapol Theepsuwan said about 100 policemen are now manning the party premises on a daily basis while the party has increased the number of closed-circuit televisions to eight from four previously for security reasons.
He said that if anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) decide to hold a rally in front of the party building, he would ask Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, responsible for domestic security, to dispatch army personnel to help police in providing protection to the party headquarters.
Meanwhile, Bangkok University’s Bangkok Poll conducted a survey on 1,250 people living in Bangkok and three neighbouring provinces between February 17-19 found that 56.2 per cent of the total respondents believed the government and security officials would not be able to control any violence which might take place before or after the Court issues its verdict.
As many as 64.4 per cent of the respondents are against a military coup even the situation has become worsen or bloodshed in the country. (TNA)
Believing that people must have seen the culprits responsible for the incidents, police on Saturday decided to offer the rewards as well as trying to find the bombers from their closed-circuit surveillance cameras.
The grenade attack occurred late Saturday night at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, 50 metres from Government House.
Police now believed that the M79 grenade launcher was fired from the fourth platform of a horse racing course, about 390 metres from the university, while 189 particles of the grenade found scattered were being probed by police bomb experts.
On Sunday, police bomb experts defused an explosive device hidden in a cardboard carton at the Supreme Court.
Both incidents took place as the Court will hand down verdict on Bt76.6 billion assets seizure of fugitive, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra on February 26. The assets are being frozen by the government.
Police have tightened security ahead of the ‘Judgement Day’ and the headquarters of the ruling Democrat Party is no exception.
Director of the Democrat Party Nattapol Theepsuwan said about 100 policemen are now manning the party premises on a daily basis while the party has increased the number of closed-circuit televisions to eight from four previously for security reasons.
He said that if anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) decide to hold a rally in front of the party building, he would ask Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, responsible for domestic security, to dispatch army personnel to help police in providing protection to the party headquarters.
Meanwhile, Bangkok University’s Bangkok Poll conducted a survey on 1,250 people living in Bangkok and three neighbouring provinces between February 17-19 found that 56.2 per cent of the total respondents believed the government and security officials would not be able to control any violence which might take place before or after the Court issues its verdict.
As many as 64.4 per cent of the respondents are against a military coup even the situation has become worsen or bloodshed in the country. (TNA)
