Two children and a woman have been killed and nearly 60 others injured in Thailand as anti-Government rallies were rocked by an explosion and a drive-by shooting attack in which gunmen lobbed grenades and fired indiscriminately at protesters.
The explosion took place this afternoon near an anti-Government rally site in a central Bangkok shopping district killing two people and injuring at least 22 others. The bomb went off near one of the biggest shopping malls here in a popular tourists area.
“A 12-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman have died from severe injuries inflicted by a bomb blast near Big C Ratchadamri that also injured 22 others,” Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Health Service reported. The injured include a nine-year-old boy who has a serious head wound and internal bleeding while a girl of the same age is also in a critical condition with internal bleeding.