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15 Dead After Large Explosion Rips Through Central Bangkok
Update: Thai PBS confirms 15 have been killed and at least 80 are injured.
Earlier:
An large explosion has ripped through central Bangkok.
Details are sparse thus far but early indications suggest multiple casualties. As AP reports, "a reporter at the scene said he saw one body and body parts, and two people taken into ambulances. The explosion took place at the Rajprasong intersection, which was the center of many contentious political demonstrations in recent years. It appeared to have occurred in front of the Erawan Shrine, a tourist landmark also popular with Thais."
Here are the headlines:
- THAI MEDIA REPORTING BLAST IN BANGKOK'S RATCHAPRASONG DISTRICT
- THAI REPORTS DON'T GIVE CAUSE OF EXPLOSION HEARD IN BANGKOK
- THAI POLICE SAY BANGKOK BLAST MAY HAVE BEEN IMPROVISED DEVICE
The following footage captures the moment of the explosion:
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— ?????? onenews (@dekdue_03) August 17, 2015
And the visuals:
And more color from BBC:
There has been a large explosion close to a shrine in the centre of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The BBC's Jonathan Head, who is at the scene, says there appear to be both dead and injured, amid a huge amount of chaos.
He says there is a massive amount of damage and a crater that indicates this could be a bomb.
Our correspondent says that if it is a bomb, this would be a rare attack for the capital.
The explosion occurred at about 19:00 local time (12:00 GMT), with police saying it may have been caused by a motorcycle bomb.
No-one has yet claimed the attack.
There are burnt motorbikes on the main road, with paramedics and police trying to take the injured away, he says.
The shrine is to the Hindu god Brahma, but is also visited by thousands of Buddhists each day.
National police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri told Agence France-Presse news agency: "I can confirm it was a bomb, we can't tell which kind yet, we are checking."
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Sum ting Wong
Wat te Fuk
Bang Ding Ow
Confucius say: "man who walk thru airport turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok"
Muzzies are a headache in Thailand as well.
Live TV News Coverage:
http://streema.com/tv/play/T_News_TV
Fuck you. What the fuck do you know?!
Confuscious say "woman who fly upside down sure to have crack up."
Confuscious also say "Anyone who use the term "Muzzies" can be dismissed out of hand."
Ignatius, intense hasbra response here on zh with this op, trying to pin it on Muslims. Jonnathan Head showed up in record time too.
Thailand just survived one of those color-revolutions. The party that failed was annointed by the CFR. The intersection where the bomb went off was the scene of many clashes. The failed opposition has held intense, provocative, angry rallies there.
Cool, you noticed, too.
Thanks for the informed update.
Fuck you. What the fuck do you know?!
I live in Thailand and the primary suspects are islamic separatists from the south of Thailand... That's what the fuck I know... What the fuck do you know?
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The statement "...the primary suspects are..." is not evidence.
I'm not making assertions, just questioning them.
Has Thailand crossed Zion recently?
Malaysia - Trial over Israel war crimes - check.
Greece - Gaza flotillas - check.
Turkey - Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla - check.
Syria - allows support of Hezbollah - check.
Iran - allows support of Hezbollah - check.
Howdy, Howdy! Thanks for the sane comment.
Indeed, muzziez have been a big issue in the south for many, many years. Also, chances of locals planting a bomb near/at a (buddhist) temple is equal to 0,0000001% (or less). I would say, equal to a taliban wiping his ass with a page of the koran because he is out of paper. Perhaps Jonny Head did point fingers quickly, but hey, even a broken clock.....
Of course can be false flag or someone else (nutter maybe?) but I would say muzzies do have the odds stacked against them at this (first) point.
The Erawan Shrine is not a Buddhist temple. It is Hindu, with Ramanyana dancers. The intersection has seen a lot of clashes over the years between the CFR-backed opposition and the Thais who won't surrender to the CFR.
So here's what seems to be going on. The bomb is due to the political conflict and the bombers want to escape international scrutiny, by blaming the Muslims. The fight with Muslim septatists has never occured outside of the far southern region.
ok, I'm an idiot for not checking out the faith of the temple. my apologies.
I'm glad you so quickly ruled out the Religion of Peace.
The shrine is popular with Chinese tourists and this raises at least the possibility of a connection to the Uighurs - a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority in the far west of China.
One bystander, Alessandro Ursic, told the BBC: "When I arrived they had already cleared the bodies from the ground outside the Erawan shrine but there were and there are still pieces of human flesh strewn around the intersection; it's really graphic."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33963280
The thing in the South isn't about Muslims or Islam, it's about economic and political marginalization of restive/redneck/ethnic Malay provinces. I did an extended stint there working with Surayud, Samak and Chavalit, and called it quits when the masses voted in the kid, who didn't have the gravitas for what needs to be done there. At least leave in Kon Samui or Koh Phagnan was always a blast (the other type)...
ROFL.
Muzzie cube-worshiping goat bangers in the South of Thailand have been a headache for decades.
Lies Divine Wind. Since January 2004. Before then no armed conflict for decades.
bollocks, low profile fighting basically since the ww2 and more intense since 2000's.
I'm not disagreeing. Low level violence until January 4, 2004, when things changed dramaticly. Here it is from the establishment spproved Wik -
"2004 A further steep escalation of the violence in the Southern Border Provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat is reckoned to have begun on 4 January 2004 with the raiding of a Thai Army depot.[7] On 4 January 2004, unidentified gunmen raided an army ammunition depot in Narathiwat Province in the early morning, and made off with over 400 rifles and other ammunition.[2]"
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_events_related_to_the_South_...
He knows that Muslims are the scum of the earth. Wtf do u know
Remember the muzzies who blew themselves up accidentally there a few years ago . Pictures surfaced of them in boyztown getting bjs before the y died
And fuck you too, Spitz.
Keep snortin' yur coke off your crack addict's ass.
Is Iggy a Muzzie, or just a liberal Ala Snackbar supporter?
Ahhhhh lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu lu !!!!!
Enjoying the kool aid, are ya?
Muzzie I say. If not then hard left. Former hates everbody including latter. Latter loves former and makes no sense at all.
Geezus, neocunts on the march here at ZH today.
They're swarming here, like somebody rang their bell and told them to get on it and blame the Muslims. Now its "The hard left". Certainly, it could not be somebody like the NeoCon cookie pusher.
The local version of a color revolution failed and inside the Beltway, people are irate.
Hard to understand how ZH has been run over by these posters who attempt to blame Muslims for everything going on in the world while ignoring the elephant in the room.
"Pictures surfaced...", your friends set that up?
People will believe anything, that's what you count on, right?
Ignatious, don't let the self-righteous bigots who know absolutely nothing about the people they spew their hate on disturb your cool. It's ass-holes like them that try and justify the war on terror or believe that IS was not invented by the CIA as a re-branding of Al CIAda.
They, like their Nazi and Zionist puppet masters need a world defined in terms of "them and us" so as to get other idiots to who know even less of the world to give them support. It's called fascism supported by ignorance. They see it as a way to power. Poor backward degenerates!
the pork haters are a problem in Thailand but it has been in the Southern part mostly. Actually the pork haters bomb more often than you might think in the south part of thailand.
I know this because my wife is Thai and she keeps up with the news.
Pork haters are a problem all over the World so Thailand should be special...they all just want to kill everyone including each other.....
If this is a bomb, it could be political between the red/yellow shirts. Could just be an industrial accident though... all kinds of chemicals (oxygen, helium, etc) are carried on the motorbikes and one could have just exploded accidently in the area that they mention in the article. Would be strange if this was caused by a pork hater.
Did you bump your head? Did you misspell your screen name? I see it as Ignoramus.
The mind virus of the sand niggers and their followers have been a big problem there and in the Philippines for a loooong time...
I guess you don't travel or even read very much (let alone pay attention).
Let's check your ignorance quotient.
Tell us, what happened, who was responsible for 9/11-anthrax?
Pork Haters and Friends of the Pork Haters....
Next Question....
You haven't answered shit.
I sure did you pork hating baby raper.... you just refuse to see and hear it!
Hey Tyler, how is this guy still here spewing this kind of racial hatred?
Islam itself is a terrorist organization. Execute all practicing Muslims and nuke Mecca. The world would be better off.
yeppers.... even the Quran teaches terror and baby raping...
Yep, death to those who don't believe in USURY.
They must be villified!
LOL, the idea of Wall Street and Israel as the American public's 'allies' is sickening.
Police noticed a black man on a golf cart driving through the area shortly before the blast, the cart having the seal of the United States on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAIFOR0Tmyw
He'd just fuck it up.
100 dead?
A large explosion has hit a shopping district in Bangkok, leaving several injured, as per reports.
latest:
http://tersee.com/#!q=bangkok&t=text
china recently started cracking down on muslims, then boom
http://www.thefix.com/content/china-cracks-down-islam-forcing-muslim-sho...
Just like Russia has clamped down on Western NGOs...
Maybe they figured out those 'muslims' are getting funding from a certain Uncle S?
Looks like "Religion of Peace" strikes again.
Did they call you guys and Jonathan head? Unlikely it is Muslims, but if it is, dollars to donuts, its the Uncle Sam ISIS variety.
Financial IED imminent
Could it be some of our muslim friends?.. Imperial Thai foreign policy is clearly to blame for it all.
"A Private Little War: Muslim Insurgency In Southern Thailand Rages, Ignored By Outside World"
http://www.ibtimes.com/private-little-war-muslim-insurgency-southern-tha...
The ibtimes article ignores the connection between the CFR-backed Thaksin governments crazy and unpopular decision to join the Bush GWOT in mid2003 and the great escalation in violence in 2004.
Seems events are speeding up.
The sheep will need something to rally around.
Remember the Maine.
Lusitania
Gulf of Tonkin
9/11
etc......
The Liberty
Remember Netanyahu stating 9/11 was good for Israel and that the US can easily be moved.
Pearl Harbor!
We never saw it coming! That entire navy sailed 4000 miles and we didn't have a clue *wink wink*. Tora tora tora!
Murray Head said it best; "One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble."
I can see the devil walking next to me...
Broken windows! BULLISH!
Things are really starting to heat up with only a month left in Summer.
Detroit police have a large section of the downtown off right now. Seems a Styrofoam ball with a fuse sticking out of it was seen.
...and Bibi Nuttinyahoo was reportedly in the area.
19000 Iranians spotted in Dearborn
Daily.
Persia, the land that has not waged war outside its borders for... 200 years.
America and Israel... Not so much.
BANGkok
Krung Thep
Not the tourist track, not ethnic (i.e., not Chinatown and no Muslim-owned small shops), not historical per se. Pretty much just the business district. I seem to recall there was a confrontation right about there at the last coup; or the one before that. Royal That Police HQ nearby. Turf war is my best guess, someone sending a warning.
International turf war.
First guess? It's the group that opposes the group that attends the shrine that was blown up.
The intersection was the scene of the CFR backed Red Shirt encampment and several confrontations a few years ago. The shrine is a lovely, happy place with flower sellers and traditional dancers.
The shrine is a lovely, happy place with flower sellers and traditional dancers.
Sounds like the perfect target to piss people off.
Not any more.
It's now a shrine to jihad.
Say Devalue again I dare you, say Devalue again!
@ Bill of Rights
They use the Thai Baht (THB)
The same baht that's in a currency war with China?
Mudslimes are on the march !
Dexter .... needs to do a blood spatter assessment .... all the spatter is low to the ground ?
Link
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/849147-powerful-bomb-explode-near-ra...
The tweet said 5 dead and 25 injured.
BBC's Jonathan Head probably got the phone call so he could make the scene.
Thailand escaped most of the destruction visited upon it's neighbors the last time the money powers showed up blowing up things in the VN war.
What a sick thing for someone to do. During the last round of street demonstrations, about a year ago, supporters of the CFR backed government were throwing grenades into and doing drive by shootings into the peaceful crowds.
Shades of Ukraine destabalization with a government they don't like? Does Viki Knoodleman-Kagan order Thai take-out?
Hard to believe there's so few safe places anymore. IN the usa you get mugged or beaten to death by thugs for your air jordans and overseas they simply behead you or blow you up.
all choreographed by the Deep State.
The Chosenites Minions...the Deep State. Sounds rather official, doesnt it?
It may be a false flag for some purpose to advance the goals of the military dictatorship.
It's not that huge of an explosion.
The location is just under the BTS skytrain which seems to have survived unscathed.
Thee hundred meters down the road is the Central station of the BTS mass transit, a much better target to get the real terrorizing done.
This is a small potato false flag.
Prolly someone who holds a hateful grudge against the shrine.
After reading some of the comments...perhaps it went off prematurely?
Mossad ops picking up a LOT of frequent terrorist miles these daze.
get your muslim running. head out on the highway. looking for adventure! whatever comes our way.
Like a true nature's child.
So, sacred to Hindus and Buhddists? Which group is likely responsible, choose one:
1) Amish
2) Mormans
3) Quakers
4) that guy with the huge church on TV
5) Gun nuts
6) Consitutionalists
7) Anti-abortion activists
According to the MSM, those are your only choices.
8) CIA
Bingo, we have a winner.
9) New Communist Party
Hate to see that kinda stuff happen there. I used to go there every six months over a period of several years, spend a couple weeks at a time with my Thai girlfriends. I love Thailand. Love the people, everything about it.
Damn sure hated to see the descent into problems with Muslims and politics and now this shit really sucks.
Grimaldus
Unlikely to be work of Islamic extremists.
Locals suspect a former "democratically elected" leader in exile to be behind the blast as the military government is stripping police rank off him.
Me wondering how the US State Dept and Embassy in Bangkok would react since the US is seen as his ally.
Given the swarm of uninformed ideologues, your informed comment stands out and is appreciated.
"Given the swarm of uninformed ideologues"
rabble-rousers
ago-nostics
Sounds like you are pushing the line of the false-flaggers who actually did it.
Do you have any evidence other than the alleged suspicions of those "locals"?
And assuming your reference is to Thaksin Shinawatra he was elected democratically by the majority of people in the country who happen to live in rural areas. The entrenched forces in Bangkok have had his party overthrown in military supported coups several times.
For comparison, Bangkok = NYC/DC and rural Thailand = flyover country.
Democracy spreading has become the banksters can openner. Buy off the masses with outright vote buying and impossible promises to get in office and then turn the country over to globalist bankster looting. What sane perxon that loves their country would put up with what is essentially the George Soros color-revolution take down maneuver?
The populist rice buying scheme at huge mark-ups nearly bankrupted the country and destroyed the rural economy. Less than 20% of the payout went to poor farmers. The rest went into the oonected pockets of the government that was eventually, thankfully overthrown. In most cases the government took the rice, gave a receipt and promised to pay later. In many cases, they never did get around to paying. Farmers committed suicide as they were left with no rice and no money. Vast quantities of rice rotted in warehouses. You are uninformed. Thaksin is a convicted crimminal on the run.
The Federal Reserve's financial bombs have been killing and starving millions for over 100 years.
This explosion was peanuts by comparison.
P.S. This shrine is a tourist attraction popular among Mainland Chinese that are now important source of the country's tourism income. A good number of casualties are Chinese tourists.
Powers that were (PTW) desperately need war to avoid accountability for their crimes and to manufacture consent to their rule.
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Any further corporate governmental intervention into any matter regarding any activity in any of the several states related to the Respublica of Earth, United States of America is now considered a Breach of the Peace.
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http://www.courtofages.com/usa-orders.html
http://www.courtofages.com/intl-orders.html
http://www.courtofages.com/documents.html
Now 27 dead, over 80 injured, many severely.
Not conspiracies. Pull up the 2015 Bilderburg attendance list. You'll find the three parties involved with China port explosions.
Good luck FBI. CIA, begin the ground work collection in Europe.
Best wishes. They are in plain site. Take these fucker's out.
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2015.html
Spent an hour at that temple (during the daytime) a few years back taking video and pictures of the dancers, musicians and people making flower offerings. Very active place with locals and tourists alike.
Makes me sad. People made offerings and paid for the dancers and musicians to perform to bring them luck. Sinister forces trying to circumvent the will of the people to have peace and prosperity.
Unlike the fake Boston Marathon bombing, there is actual carnage and burned wreckage here.
Reminds me of the film "The Quiet American" where Brendan Frazier is a CIA agent in Saigon, orchestrates a bombing, the bombers leave two motorcars near a restaurant and in the middle of the street, they explodes killing and wounding scores of civilians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjOW9luDWw
destabilised and overthrow