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Police believe Bangkok bus stop bomber is expert; Opposition denounces attack
BANGKOK, July 26 -- Senior Thai police officers Monday said they believed a bomb which exploded at a busy bus stop outside Big C department store in the capital was an M67 type and the bomber must have been expert in using it.
Pol Gen Panupong Singhara Na Ayutthaya, national police chief adviser, told journalists after chairing an urgent police meeting on Sunday’s bombing incident that police initially believed the explosive was an M67 type.
He said the bomber used a fuse attached to the device and set the time with an alarm clock. The builder must have been expert as the circuit had to be changed and the fuse had to be removed before the bomb could explode.
After watching a closed-circuit television monitor installed near the scene of the incident, police saw a suspected bomber in the picture but they are still uncertain, said Gen Panupong.
He said police suspected that the incident stemmed from either domestic politics or with persons intending to create 'a situation' in the country.
One man was killed while another 10 people were wounded in the bombing outside the Big C department store branch and shopping mall in Bangkok's Ratchadamri Road, now closed as it was burned after the street was occupied by anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) for over two months.
The protest ended on May 19 following a military operation to seal off the area.
As an investigation of the bombing is underway, opposition Puea Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit told a press conference that his party felt extended sympathy to families of the victims.
The opposition spokesman said the pary denounced those behind the incident which gives the government an excuse to retain the use of Thaiand's emergency decree.
The emergency decree is now imposed in 16 provinces, including Bangkok. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has pledged to revoke the decree on a gradual basis.
Mr Prompong said the government should not use the bombing incident in a pretext to retain the decree. (MCOT online news)
Pol Gen Panupong Singhara Na Ayutthaya, national police chief adviser, told journalists after chairing an urgent police meeting on Sunday’s bombing incident that police initially believed the explosive was an M67 type.
He said the bomber used a fuse attached to the device and set the time with an alarm clock. The builder must have been expert as the circuit had to be changed and the fuse had to be removed before the bomb could explode.
After watching a closed-circuit television monitor installed near the scene of the incident, police saw a suspected bomber in the picture but they are still uncertain, said Gen Panupong.
He said police suspected that the incident stemmed from either domestic politics or with persons intending to create 'a situation' in the country.
One man was killed while another 10 people were wounded in the bombing outside the Big C department store branch and shopping mall in Bangkok's Ratchadamri Road, now closed as it was burned after the street was occupied by anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) for over two months.
The protest ended on May 19 following a military operation to seal off the area.
As an investigation of the bombing is underway, opposition Puea Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit told a press conference that his party felt extended sympathy to families of the victims.
The opposition spokesman said the pary denounced those behind the incident which gives the government an excuse to retain the use of Thaiand's emergency decree.
The emergency decree is now imposed in 16 provinces, including Bangkok. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has pledged to revoke the decree on a gradual basis.
Mr Prompong said the government should not use the bombing incident in a pretext to retain the decree. (MCOT online news)
