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The Thai Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London said: “We… are deeply saddened to hear the news of Miss Chan “Vivian” Wing-Yan, a Law Student at SOAS, who passed away yesterday after a bomb blast in central Bangkok”.

A Thai motorbike taxi driver who believes he picked up the chief suspect in the bombing of Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine shortly after the blast said the man appeared calm and spoke an unfamiliar language on his cellphone.

“The school has been in contact with Vivian’s family to express its most sincere condolences on her passing and is co-ordinating condolence and support arrangements for its students, alumnae, teachers and parents”.

The government said the attack during the Monday evening rush hour, in the capital’s bustling commercial hub, was aimed at destroying the economy.

Police are evacuating everyone within three kilometres of the blast site amid reports more explosions have rocked the northern Chinese city, CNN reports. At least 21 firefighters are among the dead and an unknown number remain missing.

Chan and Pang, 24, who had travelled with two male companions, were inside the temple praying when the bomb exploded, a friend of the group told the Guardian.

Twenty-two people were killed and 123 injured in yesterday’s blast at the Ratchaprasong intersection.

Mr Chan-ocha described the bomb blast in Bangkok as the worst attack ever on the country that “aimed for innocent lives”.

Thai authorities said yesterday they were hunting a man shown on security footage strolling into a packed religious shrine wearing a bright yellow T-shirt and placing a bomb-laden backpack, before an explosion that killed at least 20 people.

According to He Shushan, vice mayor of Tianjin, as of Monday night, specialists had searched risky chemicals scattered within a radius of three kilometers around the blast site’s core area.

The high insurance penetration rate in this area could make the blasts one of the most costly catastrophe claims for the Chinese insurance sector in the past few years, the report said. It is one of the government agencies responsible for regulating companies that work with...

The explosions occurred at night and they struck a mostly industrial zone otherwise the death toll could have been much higher.

This could be the highest death toll in a rescue mission for firefighters since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, official media reported.

Investigations continue at the Erawan Shrine the morning after an explosion in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015.

He later posted on Instagram stills of CCTV footage he said showed his whereabouts yesterday.