Second explosion hits Bangkok, no injuries

A day after Bangkok’s deadly bomb attack that killed 27 and injured 123 others, Thailand police reported a second explosion in the capital, this time at a ferry pier but with no injuries.

“If it did not fall in the water then it certainly would have caused injuries“, Siriwongtawan said.

Nobody, including those who were waiting for passenger boats on the pier, was killed or injured, the police said. “We have to find them first”.

But no one claimed responsibility for the assault and security analysts expressed scepticism over the government’s lightning move to cast suspicion on its opponents.

The Sathorn bomb was estimated to have a blast radius of 35-50 metres, less than half of the bomb left under a bench Monday night at the Hindu shrine at the Ratchprasong intersection.

“We didn’t think anything like this could happen in Bangkok”, said Holger Siegle of Germany, who said he and his newlywed wife had chosen Thailand because it seemed safe.

While police and army presence will increase around Bangkok, the Tourism Authority of Thailand says that life in the city is “continuing as normal” and banks, hotels, tour operators, shopping malls, restaurants and public transit systems remain open.

“We still don’t know for sure who did this and why”, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon told reporters.

Pol Gen Somyot said there were more than one person behind the two bombings and that both Thais and foreign nationals were involved.

Pedestrians had been able to get closer to the scene, and many took pictures Tuesday morning from behind police tape.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha promised to “hurry and find the bombers”.