Security stepped up after Bangkok bombing

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

BANGKOK (AFP) — A nationwide security alert was issued across Thailand after a bomb exploded outside a Bangkok shopping centre that was also hit in a wave of New Year's Eve attacks, officials said Tuesday.

The device blew up at a telephone booth in front of the Major Cineplex Ratchayothin shopping centre on the northern outskirts of the city late Monday.

No one was injured.

"There is a row of three phone booths and the bomb exploded in one of them. The glass was shattered, but there were no casualties," Bangkok city police spokesman Colonel Supisan Pakdinarunart said.

The shopping centre was among nine places in Bangkok bombed on New Year's Eve, when three people were killed and dozens injured in blasts around the capital.

Those attacks were...