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Police ordered to boost security after Friday's Bangkok bombings
BANGKOK, Sept 25 -- Thai police have been ordered to increase security measures including setting up more checkpoints after Friday’s two separate bombing incidents in the capital which left three persons wounded, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said.
Mr Suthep, who oversees national security, said he believed that Friday’s incidents had probably been due to personal conflicts and not related to the ongoing political problems in the country.
However, he said as a precaution he had called for National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to have police stations set up more checkpoints and “not allow people to plant explosives anywhere they like.”
Asked whether it is necessary to increase the number of police on patrol, he said Gen Wichean had told him that the present number of policemen is sufficient. If not, he said, soldiers from the First Army Region are on standby to assist the police.
Two young women and an older man were injured by an explosion in a trash bin on Rama 3 Road in Yannawa district.
In seperate incident, a car belonging to a Silpakorn University student was severely damaged in a bomb explosion while parked in a residential lane in the capital's Talingchan district Friday evening, no one injured from the incident.
Mr Suthep said it was not easy to revoke the emergency decree in Bangkok. Lifting the decree, if done hastily, could negatively affect the country as well as peace of the people.
Apart from Bangkok, the emergency decree is now imposed in six provinces.
The decree was imposed in early April when anti-government protesters held massive demonstrations demanding the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign unconditionally, which the government did not do. (MCOT online news)
Mr Suthep, who oversees national security, said he believed that Friday’s incidents had probably been due to personal conflicts and not related to the ongoing political problems in the country.
However, he said as a precaution he had called for National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to have police stations set up more checkpoints and “not allow people to plant explosives anywhere they like.”
Asked whether it is necessary to increase the number of police on patrol, he said Gen Wichean had told him that the present number of policemen is sufficient. If not, he said, soldiers from the First Army Region are on standby to assist the police.
Two young women and an older man were injured by an explosion in a trash bin on Rama 3 Road in Yannawa district.
In seperate incident, a car belonging to a Silpakorn University student was severely damaged in a bomb explosion while parked in a residential lane in the capital's Talingchan district Friday evening, no one injured from the incident.
Mr Suthep said it was not easy to revoke the emergency decree in Bangkok. Lifting the decree, if done hastily, could negatively affect the country as well as peace of the people.
Apart from Bangkok, the emergency decree is now imposed in six provinces.
The decree was imposed in early April when anti-government protesters held massive demonstrations demanding the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign unconditionally, which the government did not do. (MCOT online news)
