Their Majesties the King and Queen grant funds for Silom grenade attack victims

BANGKOK, April 23 (TNA) – Their Majesties the King and Queen have granted funds for the families of the dead and the injured in Thursday's grenade attacks at and near Sala Daeng intersection.

Relatives of the dead and injured may contact the Royal Household Bureau to receive the compensation for funeral rites and hospital expenses.

The Erawan Emergency Medical Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reported one person dead and 87 injured from Thursday night's incident.

Dead from the incident Thanyanun Thabthong, age 50, who received shrapnel wounds to her face and head.

Among the injured, 30 persons, including three foreigners remain in hospital.

A series of grenade attacks occurred at the Silom Road-Sala Daeng intersection on Thursday night where the 'Silom community' and pro-government 'Multi-Coloured Group' were rallying.

Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd, spokesman for the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), confirmed that all five grenades were fired from M-79 launchers.

He said the first three rounds landed on the BTS Skytrain station between 8pm and 9.45pm, the fourth on the skywalk beneath the station, and the fifth in front of a Bank of Ayudhya branch on Silom Road.

All five grenades apparently targeted the Silom community group and the multi-coloured group who had gathered under the BTS Sala Daeng station to confront the red-shirt protesters encamped across the street behind a barricade of tyres and sharpened bamboo staves.

Meanwhile, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will file a lawsuit against the Red Shirt protesters to seek damages from them for broken pavement at Lumpini Park and Phan Fa bridge.

The protesters broke the pavement to use the bricks as weapons in case of security forces launching a crackdown on them. (TNA)