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CHIANG MAI, 22 Mar 2014, (NNT) - Police officials report that there were multiple bombings in Chiang Mai last night, saying no group or individual has come forward to claim responsibility, while acknowledging the incidents were the work of ill intentioned individuals creating public alarm.


The first violent attack was on a PTT fuel station in Muang District at around half past eight, the police said, adding four people were injured, three of whom were station employees while the other was a customer. All the injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

About one hour after the event, another attack occurred in Boonrawd Co.Ltd. in Sarathee District where an unknown number of attackers threw two grenades into the company’s compound. One bomb exploded while the the other did not. No one was injured during this attack.

Finally at 10.15 PM, another bomb went off at the Andaman Seafood Restaurant in Muang District, Chiang Mai. The blast wrecked two cars but fortunately no casualties or injuries were caused.

Police are conducting an investigation into the triple attacks.

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Four wounded in three explosions in Chiang Mai
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CHIANG MAI, March 22 -- Four people were wounded in three separated explosions in the northern province of Chiang Mai on Friday night.

The explosions occurred almost at the same time at around 10pm. The first bomb was detonated at a petrol station at Nong Hoi subdistrict in the provincial seat of Chiang Mai.

Four people--three petrol station employees and one customer--were wounded and sent to a nearby hospital.

The investigators found the trigger of the bomb and guessed it to be an RGD5 hand grenade. Police were checking CCTV footage to seek evidence and the bomber's identity.

The petrol station was operated by a company of a former Uttaradit Senator who was reportedly supporting the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC).

The second bomb was exploded at the parking lot of Andaman Seafood restaurant on Mahidol Road of the provincial seat.

Police said, according to the initial investigation, the bomb was a homemade gunpowder explosive device. The power of the blast damaged several cars, but there were no reports of injuries.

The third blast has occurred at office of Chiangmai Beverage Co, an affiliate of Boonrawd Brewery Co in Saraphi district. There were no initial reports of injuries.

According to an initial investigation, two M-79 grenades were shot at the office, one failed to explode, while the another one exploded.

Earlier at around 9.30pm in the eastern resort province of Chon Buri, two M-79 grenades landed near a PDRC stage in the provincial seat.

Kantapon Sukhumalin, a leader of the PDRC in Chon Buri, said some 2,000 protesters had rallied at the Bang Sai subdistrict while attackers in a pickup truck parked and fired two grenades at them.

One grenade landed in front of Bang Sai municipality office, damaging glass windows, a pickup truck, and a car. Another grenade caused damage to Bang Sai knowledge and development centre. (MCOT online news)

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Grenade blasts rattle northern Thai city

BANGKOK, March 22, 2014 (AFP) - A string of grenade blasts shook a northern Thai city popular with foreign tourists, leaving several people wounded in attacks that police said Saturday could be linked to the kingdom's deadly political crisis.


The explosions in Chiang Mai on Friday evening came hours after the Constitutional Court nullified a February general election disrupted by opposition protests, angering government supporters.

The targets were a seafood restaurant, a petrol station and a brewery that has faced criticism because of its controlling family's links with anti-government protesters.

Four people were wounded but were out of danger Saturday and had returned home, Chiang Mai provincial police commander Grit Gitilue said by telephone.

"We established two possible motives for the attacks -- personal conflict or politics. We are giving more weight to the second one," he said, adding that no suspects had been arrested.

Two grenades were also fired near an anti-government rally in the eastern province of Chonburi on Friday evening but nobody was hurt, police said.

The unrest is a blow to efforts to lure back tourists after a state of emergency was recently lifted in Bangkok in response to an easing of months of political violence that has left 23 people dead.

The violence, mostly concentrated in Bangkok, has often targeted opposition protesters seeking to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government and install an unelected "people's council" to oversee reforms.

Thailand has been bitterly divided since her elder brother Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted as premier by royalist generals in a 2006 coup.
Yingluck has been charged with negligence in connection with a rice subsidy scheme, and could face impeachment within weeks.

Her supporters, known as the "Red Shirts", have warned that they will not tolerate a "judicial coup" to oust the government through the courts.

The red-clad movement was due to hold a political rally on Saturday evening in the seaside city of Pattaya.

Their mass protests against the previous government in 2010 triggered street clashes and a military crackdown that left more than 90 people dead in the country's worst civil unrest in decades.

Yingluck's Puea Thai Party had been expected to win the February election, which was boycotted by the opposition.

The polls were annulled on the grounds that they were not held nationwide on the same day, due to the disruption by demonstrators.

Parties linked to Thaksin -- who lives in Dubai to avoid prison for corruption -- won every previous election for more than a decade, helped by strong support in the north.

But many southerners and Bangkok residents accuse the Shinawatra family of raiding the public coffers to buy the loyalty of rural voters through populist policies.

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Logic would dictate that these were caused by anti-government supporters in the supposedly "Red Stronghold". However, this is Thailand, where "logic" has no bearing, so who knows?

But living in CM, this is something I've been expecting to happen, so it's not exactly a surprise.

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logic says that those who are known for violence, bomb, gun and grenade attacks and who are talking about war and wardrums are those who did this.

Logic also says, that the more of one of those groups are in that area tha more likely it is they did this.

Not those who are not known for this kind of violence

(And btw everyone knows anyway - by common sense)

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Logic would dictate that these were caused by anti-government supporters in the supposedly "Red Stronghold". However, this is Thailand, where "logic" has no bearing, so who knows?

But living in CM, this is something I've been expecting to happen, so it's not exactly a surprise.

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logic says that those who are known for violence, bomb, gun and grenade attacks and who are talking about war and wardrums are those who did this.

Logic also says, that the more of one of those groups are in that area tha more likely it is they did this.

Not those who are not known for this kind of violence

(And btw everyone knows anyway - by common sense)

This is one of suthep's tactics.

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Logic would dictate that these were caused by anti-government supporters in the supposedly "Red Stronghold". However, this is Thailand, where "logic" has no bearing, so who knows?

But living in CM, this is something I've been expecting to happen, so it's not exactly a surprise.

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There is logic, if you can call it logic, coming from the red leaders heads.

They are trying to create headlines and get sympathy from the Thai people.

They have no morals and they are criminals.

And they will carry on and on...........don't expect the police to identify them.

You must be talking about suthep and his band of thugs who do not have to go and appear in court because they are too busy. They are too busy throwing bombs.

Get the facts right. suthep started ALL OF THIS>

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Logic would dictate that these were caused by anti-government supporters in the supposedly "Red Stronghold". However, this is Thailand, where "logic" has no bearing, so who knows?

But living in CM, this is something I've been expecting to happen, so it's not exactly a surprise.

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There is logic, if you can call it logic, coming from the red leaders heads.

They are trying to create headlines and get sympathy from the Thai people.

They have no morals and they are criminals.

And they will carry on and on...........don't expect the police to identify them.

Precisely. Anyone who has any knowledge of world political instability and events around that, would see that this is a classic 'come-on' used many times in the past.

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Logic would dictate that these were caused by anti-government supporters in the supposedly "Red Stronghold". However, this is Thailand, where "logic" has no bearing, so who knows?

But living in CM, this is something I've been expecting to happen, so it's not exactly a surprise.

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There is logic, if you can call it logic, coming from the red leaders heads.

They are trying to create headlines and get sympathy from the Thai people.

They have no morals and they are criminals.

And they will carry on and on...........don't expect the police to identify them.

Speculation!... However, the very same thoughts crossed my mind too, the PTP Reds are trying everything to discredit the Yellows and galvanise their own supporters.

By criticising every court decision (ok, some might be bad decisions, but most are not).

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