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| At least 20 people killed in the blast near Erawan Shrine in ?Bangkok Monday night and 125 people were injured and sought medical help, a police spokesman on Tuesday morning revised the death toll and said that earlier reports of 22 deaths was because of confusion over identifying body parts.There are 4 Chinese among the dead, 2 from the mainland and 2 from Hong Kong, Chinese embassy in Thailand confirmed on Tuesday morning. (photo by Tianle Wang, Yichun Yu / People's Daily Bangkok Bureau) |
BANGKOK, Aug. 18 -- Another explosion occurred at a pier in Bangkok on Tuesday with no injuries reported, local media reported.
At around 1: 20 p.m. local time, an explosive device was thrown down from Sathorn bridge near Sathorn pier, and exploded under the water, according to Bangkok Post.
The police have closed traffic from nearby skytrain station to the pier, from where a large number of locals and foreign tourists commute to popular tourist destinations in the capital including the Grand Palace, Asiatique and Chinatown.
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