Thai police deactivate bomb in Bangkok house on Sukhumvit 81

Thai police said today that they had found and deactivated a bomb a week after an explosion killed 20 people in the city.

“We received reports this afternoon of a bomb in Sukhumvit 81. I went to check and found a wide bomb,” Kamthorn Aucharoen, commander of the police’s explosive ordnance team, told Reuters.

“It was left in the house of a construction worker,” he said. “We have deactivated the bomb and will destroy it,” he added.

Police said on Monday the trail had gone cold in the hunt for a bomber in Thailand’s worst ever bomb attack, and they were unsure if the chief suspect was still in the country.

Text/Photo: Reuters




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