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Three M79 grenades found in drainage ditch at Government House
BANGKOK, July 31 (TNA) -- Three M79 grenades have been found in a drainage ditch at Government House, Thailand's seat of government, according to a senior police officer.
Metropolitan Police Division 1 commander Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai said the bomb squad were called in to retrieve the grenades which have not yet exploded.
The explosives were found while workers of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were cleaning the drainage system at the Government House, near entrance gate number seven, Maj-Gen Wichai said.
Police are investigating the source of the explosives and how they were taken there, he added.
However, the grenades were likely to have been used against a building in the Government House compound during the demonstration of the anti-government 'Red Shirt' United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
Although an emergency decree is now imposed in the Thai capital, two bombing incidents have occurred in the past six days and no suspects have been apprehended.
One man was killed while another ten were wounded in a bombing at a bus stop outside the closed Big C department store Ratchadamri Road last Sunday in the first major incident of violence in the Thai capital since the anti-government rally ended two months ago.
Yesterday an M59 hand grenade in a plastic rubbish bag exploded on Rangnam Road near King Power duty-free shopping centre not far from Victory Monument, seriously wounding a trash scavenger who remains hospitalised.
On August 26, 2008, anti-ex premier Thaksin Shinawatra protesters seized Government House, forcing then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and his staff to leave the compound.
The protesters left Government House in late November to join fellow People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) Yellow Shirt demonstrators occupying Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports. (MCOT online news)
Metropolitan Police Division 1 commander Pol Maj-Gen Wichai Sangprapai said the bomb squad were called in to retrieve the grenades which have not yet exploded.
The explosives were found while workers of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration were cleaning the drainage system at the Government House, near entrance gate number seven, Maj-Gen Wichai said.
Police are investigating the source of the explosives and how they were taken there, he added.
However, the grenades were likely to have been used against a building in the Government House compound during the demonstration of the anti-government 'Red Shirt' United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD).
Although an emergency decree is now imposed in the Thai capital, two bombing incidents have occurred in the past six days and no suspects have been apprehended.
One man was killed while another ten were wounded in a bombing at a bus stop outside the closed Big C department store Ratchadamri Road last Sunday in the first major incident of violence in the Thai capital since the anti-government rally ended two months ago.
Yesterday an M59 hand grenade in a plastic rubbish bag exploded on Rangnam Road near King Power duty-free shopping centre not far from Victory Monument, seriously wounding a trash scavenger who remains hospitalised.
On August 26, 2008, anti-ex premier Thaksin Shinawatra protesters seized Government House, forcing then prime minister Somchai Wongsawat and his staff to leave the compound.
The protesters left Government House in late November to join fellow People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) Yellow Shirt demonstrators occupying Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports. (MCOT online news)
