Thai authorities say one dead in grenade blasts
| By Manager Online | 23 April 2010 11:18 |
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 | | Bangkok, THAILAND : Blood on a street is covered by a Thai national flag after a series of explosions on Silom road in the financial district of central Bangkok on April 22, 2010. Initial reports suggested that an M79 grenade launcher caused the explosions, said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn, adding at least one foreigner was wounded. Three hospitals in the area said 45 people were injured in total, and Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva immediately called an emergency meeting with security officials. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/Nicolas ASFOURI | | |
April 23, 2010
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai emergency services and the health ministry said Friday that one person was killed in grenade blasts that hit Bangkok's business district.
A Thai deputy prime minister put the death toll at three shortly after the five explosions which hit late Thursday, tearing through a pro-government crowd facing off against "Red Shirts" anti-government campaigners.
The Bangkok Emergency Medical Service said however that a 26-year-old Thai woman was the only confirmed fatality, and that 85 were injured included three foreigners from Australia, Indonesia and the United States.
"As of now we can confirm that one person is dead. We cannot find the other two people reported dead, after checking with hospitals," an official at the centre told AFP.
The public health ministry also said that one person was killed but put the number of injured at 78. It said that four foreigners were among those hurt, including one Japanese.
It said in a statement that of those injured, 30 were still hospitalised and two were in a critical condition in intensive care units.
Australian's foreign affairs department confirmed that 26-year-old Australian Benjamin Rowse had been hospitalised with minor injuries after being wounded in one of the grenade blasts that hit an elevated railway station.
The US embassy confirmed one of its citizens was injured but could not give further details.
Japan's embassy was not immediately able to comment on whether any of its citizens were injured.
The blasts came after weeks of rolling demonstrations in the capital, staged by the Red Shirts, who are demanding snap
elections to replace a government they say is undemocratic and came to power illegitimately.
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