TotallyOz Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 By The Nation An explosion occurred at a Bangkok intersection where vendors of the Klong Toey Market were rallying, injuring 13 of them, two severely. Police quoted witness as saying a bag was dropped from the flyover over the Ratchada-Rama IV Intersection, causing the explosion at 1 am Friday. Bomb disposal officers have yet to determine the type of the bomb. Some 1,000 vendors have been staging a protest at the intersection since Tuesday afternoon against the Port Authority of Thailand and Legal Co. The vendors protested against what they claimed to be unfair treatment against vendors at the Klong Toey market. The injured protesters were rushed to the Kluay Nam Thai and Chulalongkorn hospitals. Two of them were severely injured. They are Yakob Lohmoh, 51, and Penthiwawan Kaewsuk, 37. Sujittra Damrongsiri, 52, a protester, said she saw a man on a motorcycle dropped a plastic bag onto the tent where the protesters were resting and an explosion occurred shortly. Pol Lt Col Prapassorn Chartprom, deputy commander of the Tha Rua police station, quoted witnesses as saying that the bag did not explode immediately but it exploded about five seconds after it landed on the tent's roof. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11/13...al_30088331.php Quote
Guest MonkeySee Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 And from the Asia-Pacific News Nov 13, 2008, 1:57 GMT Bangkok - A bomb hurled Thursday morning at protestors at Klong Toey Market in Bangkok injured 13 people, two of whom were in critical condition, police said. 'Eyewitnesses said the bomb was thrown by a man on a motorcycle from the bridge that overlooks the market,' said Police Colonel Suthip Palitkusontat, of the Klong Toey Port Police Station. Vendors at the famed open air market - the largest in the capital - have been protesting efforts to evict them by a private company that won a new lease on the area on October 29. The market is owned by the Port Authority of Thailand (PAT), the state enterprise that operates Bangkok's Klong Toey Port and other commercial ports in the kingdom. In March, the PAT ended its concession with the previous operator of Klong Toey market, and took new bids from the private sector. Legal Professional Company was granted the concession on October 29, but the old operator, comprising three companies, has refused to vacate the market and continues to collect rents from more than 1,000 vendors, PAT officials said. The chairman of Legal Professional is Thamanat Pompao, whom Klong Toey vendors claim is a former army captain with a criminal record. The vendors, worried that Legal Professional will increase their rents, have been protesting against the new management since Tuesday, disrupting traffic in the area. The protest was stopped temporarily on Thursday, in a show of deference to the royal funeral for Princess Galyani Vadhana, King Bhumibol Adulyadej's eldest sister who died in January. Protests are set to resume after the funeral ends on Tuesday. Quote
Guest luvthai Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 I wonder which side will claim responsibility for this?? Quote
Guest jtrack33 Posted November 13, 2008 Posted November 13, 2008 They are still there protesting this evening and blocking all the traffic going from Asok to Rama 3...although the Stock exchange flyover is open as always. Now they seem more organised than just a bunch of disgruntled vendors...they have large tents/marquees and sophisticated speaker systems and lots of vehicles and yellow shirts...all smells as if whining PAD has jumped on the bandwagon....so you can expect local sympathy for the vendors' plight to dwindle as the professional protesters enrage commuters. Quote
