Exploding car bombs now added to the mix of daily militancy

Either someone really hated their silver Toyota Corolla, or Bangkok has experienced a rare car bombing, perhaps the first in six years.

Given it contained cans of gas blended with bullets for flesh-shredding shrapnel, we’re going to go out on a limb and say “car bomb.” 

Not to mention the vehicle was registered to a recently deceased driver and detonated near a Chaeng Wattana protest camp. Fortunately no one was injured.

Three cannisters inside the car exploded, leaving a fourth for investigators to carefully remove and examine, Khaosod reported.

Two anti-government protest seasons ago, back in 2008, a car bomb killed a man near the headquarters of the Chart Thai political party.




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