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Authorities defend quick cleanup


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THE NATION August 22, 2015 1:00 am

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Government officials, police chiefs and members of the Ratchaprasong community attend the multi-faith religious ceremony at Erawan Shrine yesterday.

FORENSIC TEAMS FOLLOWED PROCEDURE, SAY POLICE; PUBLIC TOLD NOT TO KEEP SHRAPNEL

POLICE SPENT only 12 hours to collect evidence from the Erawan bomb site, sparking suspicion over their procedure. However, the Central Scientific Crime Detection Division insisted that no more than 12 hours was required to gather all necessary evidence for the investigation.

Pol Maj-General Tawatchai Mekprasetkul, chief of the division, said yesterday that the forensics team had collected the evidence efficiently, following the correct procedures. He said that critics did not have enough knowledge of their measures.

National police chief General Somyot Poompanmuang backed Tawatchai, and insisted that the evidence team had done their job and followed normal procedure.

Criticism alleging a rushed evidence-collection procedure was brought to the public's notice by British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) journalist Jonathan Head, who found ball bearings and shrapnel at the bomb site on Thursday.

After the explosion on Monday evening, police sealed off the area to help the injured, check for other bombs and collect evidence. However, by noon the following day, traffic resumed, and the Erawan Shrine was reopened on Wednesday.

Tawatchai said that immediately after the blast scene was secured at around 8pm, the forensic team began collecting evidence until 1am and then resumed at 6am on Tuesday until the job was done by noon. It took about 12 hours, he said.

"The police has been following the procedure of collecting remaining evidence from the scene. We split into two teams - Explosive Ordnance Disposal [EOD] group to collect bomb evidence and a forensics team to gather information on the bomb suspect. The two teams worked together and we are sure that not a single clue has been left out," he explained. "Those complaining about this do not understand the forensic teams' work procedure."

As for the shrapnel and ball bearings found by Head, they could be part of something else that blew up in the explosion.

"It was big blast, so a lot of scrap from the explosion flew all around. The police have only chosen what is useful as evidence in the case," he said.

Assistant national police chief Lt-General Prawut Thavornsiri also said that he had already taken the evidence found by Head and passed it on to the EOD team for inspection, adding that anything found by anybody at the scene should be handed to police immediately.

As for the rushed clean-up, Prawut said this was because the area is a major tourist attraction and if the area is closed for too long, it will make people feel more unsafe and affect tourism.

Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra also said it was the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's job to clean up the area as the police did not need to collect any more evidence.


 

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Relatives cry as they remove the body of Suwan Sudmun, a Thai victim of Monday's bomb blast, at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand, August 18, 2015.
 

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The fifth Malaysian victim of the Bangkok bomb blast on Monday has been identified as Lim Su See, 53.

According to Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican Naina Merican, authorities were now conducting DNA tests for verification and the confirmation will come after the results are obtained.

Lim, is one of five Malaysians who perished in the unprecedented attack at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of the city on Monday evening.

The others who died are Lee Tze Siang, 35, Lim Saw Gek, 49, Lee Jing Xuan, 4, and Neoh Jai Jun, 20.

All of them were on a family trip at the time with only Neoh Ee Ling, 33, and Neoh Hock Guan, 55, surviving the blast.

A family friend, identified as Visen Lim, was reported on Wednesday to have said the body of Su See was found about midnight.

He reportedly said her body will be brought back after postmortem procedures were completed.
 

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Miss Chan had been on holiday in Thailand with her friend Arcadia Pang Wan-Chee, 24, when the bomb exploded, killing them both.
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Son of former Thai PM doubles reward offered for Bangkok bomber capture


Thai police insist their investigation is making progress despite days of confusing and sometimes contradictory statements from senior officers and junta officials.

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 22 August, 2015, 12:30pm
UPDATED : Sunday, 23 August, 2015, 1:22am

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Thaksin Shinawatra currently lives abroad in self-imposed exile after a corruption conviction that he insists was political. Photo: AFP

The son of ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has more than doubled the reward offered by police for the capture of those behind this week’s deadly Bangkok bomb blast by putting up nearly US$200,000.

Monday’s attack on a religious shrine in a bustling Bangkok shopping district killed 20 people, mostly ethnic Chinese tourists from across Asia, leaving police scrambling to find the assailants and sending shock waves through the nation’s vital tourism sector.

Police are convinced the attack was planned and coordinated by a network.

With no arrests and few clues on the identity of the main suspect in a yellow T-shirt seen leaving a backpack at the shrine moments before the fatal blast, police have offered a three million baht (US$84,000) reward for any information that leads to the capture of the assailant.

That offer has now been more than doubled by Panthongtae Shinawatra, the first born son of populist leader Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin currently lives abroad in self-imposed exile after a corruption conviction that he insists was political.

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“I have been given permission from my father to give seven million baht – two for any informant and five million for those officials who investigate and make arrests,” he wrote in a Facebook post late on Friday.

“In order to swiftly regain confidence and morale among both Thais and foreigners we have to arrest the suspect as soon as possible to make everyone realise that Thailand is not [a] place where this kind of thing can happen and you get off scot free,” he added.

Earlier in the week a prominent member of the Red Shirt movement loyal to Thaksin also offered a further two million baht reward - bringing the total money on offer to $335,000.

With no one claiming responsibility for the bombing, rumours and speculation have swirled in Thailand over the country’s worst single mass casualty attack in living memory.

Among the potential perpetrators named by police and experts alike include international jihadists, members of Thailand’s southern Islamist insurgency and militants on both sides of Thailand’s festering political divide.

Bangkok has endured a decade of deadly political violence amid a bitter power struggle.

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People mourn for the explosion victims at the reopened Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. Photo: Xinhua

On the one side stands the military, backed by the middle class and elite.

On the other, the rural and urban poor loyal to Thaksin, toppled in a 2006 coup, and his sister Yingluck who was forced out of office days before the current junta seized power last year.

The ongoing political struggle has seen repeated rounds of deadly street protests, including grenade and small pipe bomb attacks.

But experts say neither side had much to gain by launching an attack of Monday’s scale, risking opprobrium from both the Thai public and international community.

Thaksin himself has been vocal in voicing outrage at the attack.

"I condemn the perpetrator and anyone behind [this attack] with the strongest words," he wrote on his Twitter account last week.

Thai police said yesterday that they were investigating new security camera footage showing a man dropping a package into a canal - which was near a popular tourist pier - as the hunt for those behind the bombing entered its fifth day.

CCTV video widely circulated by local media showed a man in a blue T-shirt kicking the package off a footbridge in the same spot where a device exploded on Tuesday without injuries.

Until now, the search for the perpetrator of Monday's attack has focused on a primary suspect in a yellow T-shirt seen placing a heavy rucksack under a bench at the Erawan Shrine.

Asked whether the man in the blue T-shirt and the yellow T-shirt could be the same perpetrator, national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said: "It's likely the two men are different."


 

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Thai police investigating new CCTV footage showing man disposing of backpack in canal

Police are convinced the attack was planned and coordinated by a network and insist their investigation is making progress despite days of unclear and sometimes conflicting statements.

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 22 August, 2015, 3:38pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 22 August, 2015, 3:38pm

Agence France-Presse in Bangkok

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A digital billboard showing the sketch of a man suspected to be the Bangkok bomber. Photo: AFP

Thai police on Saturday said they were investigating new security camera footage showing a man dropping a package into a canal as the hunt for those behind Monday’s deadly Bangkok bomb blast entered its fifth day without arrests.

CCTV video widely circulated by local media Saturday showed a man in a blue T-shirt kicking the package off a footbridge in the same spot where a device exploded on Tuesday without injuries.

That second blast intensified anxiety in an already rattled city, following Monday’s bomb attack on a religious shrine in Bangkok’s commercial heart that cut down 20 people and wounded scores more.

Authorities have not ruled out a link between the two explosions.

The shrine bomb killed mostly ethnic Chinese tourists from across Asia, and has left police scrambling to find the assailants.

Police are convinced the attack was planned and coordinated by a network and insist their investigation is making progress despite days of unclear and sometimes conflicting statements.

National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri confirmed that the new footage was being examined to decide whether the man dropping the package into the water near Saphan Thaksin pier was a suspect.

“We have to verify the information,” he said, adding the situation was “still confusing”.

The unverified footage is time-stamped just a few minutes after Monday’s blast, which struck at 6.55pm.

It shows the man in the blue T-shirt carrying something heavy in a plastic bag. He goes to the side of a footbridge, places the bag down and then uses his mobile phone.

Around a minute later he pushes the bag into the canal with his foot, kicking up a visible splash of water.

The following day, shortly after 1pm on Tuesday, an explosion went off in the canal, which is near a popular tourist pier, sending people scurrying for cover but causing no injuries.

Until now the search for the perpetrator of Monday’s attack has focused on a primary suspect in a yellow T-shirt seen placing a heavy rucksack under a bench at the shrine.

Moments later the blast struck, scattering body parts, glass and debris over a bustling Bangkok shopping district.

Prawut on Saturday said there was no further update on the investigation into the main suspect, who has been described in an arrest warrant as an unnamed foreign man.

Asked whether the man in the blue T-shirt and the yellow T-shirt could be the same perpetrator he said: “It’s likely the two men are different.”

With no one claiming responsibility for the bombing, rumours and speculation have swirled in Thailand over the country’s worst single mass casualty attack in living memory.

The potential perpetrators named by police and experts alike include international jihadists, members of Thailand’s southern Malay-Muslim insurgency, militants on both sides of Thailand’s festering political divide and even someone with a personal grudge.

Uyghur militants from China have also been mooted as possible perpetrators as the shrine is popular with Chinese visitors.

Bangkok is in the grip of a decade-long political crisis that has been punctuated by violence, albeit mostly shootouts and small grenade or pipe bomb attacks.

On one side stands the military, backed by the middle class and elite.

On the other, the rural and urban poor loyal to populist politician Thaksin Shinawatra, toppled in a 2006 coup, and his sister Yingluck who was forced out of office days before the current junta seized power last year.

Experts say neither side had much to gain by launching an attack of Monday’s scale, risking opprobrium from both the Thai public and international community.

Thaksin has voiced outrage over the assault and distanced himself from any suggestion that militants loyal to him might have played a part in the carnage.


 

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By offering reward for the capture of the bomber, it shows that the military and police are incapable of catching him..

If they are able to find him, why the fuck need the reward.
 

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Nearly a week has passed and Thai police are no closer to capturing the bomber(s)..

Based on their past performance, I would hold out much hope for justice to prevail.
 

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Almost a week on since the deadly Bangkok bomb attack, national police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang said investigators need some luck to catch those behind it, and they have already left the country.

Pol Gen Somyot was speaking to reporters early Sunday morning after a ceremonial show of security strength meant in part to reassure the public over safety.

"We need some luck. If the police have good fortune we might be able to make an arrest but ... if the perpetrator has good fortune maybe they can get away, " the police chief said.

The bombing on Monday at a popular city shrine left 20 people dead and more than 100 wounded. So far the operation to find who carried out the attack appears to have made little headway with apparently contradictory statements coming from the military-backed government and the police.

Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said he believes the perpetrator would have timed an escape carefully and "wouldn't have much time to stay around."

"I suspect that he may have left, but we will keep searching, in case we can find others who may be in the country or find clues, evidence and witnesses who may have seen him," Pol Lt Gen Prawut said.
 

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Mew, 33, from Bangkok, second from right, prays at Erawan Shrine, the site of Monday's deadly bombing, at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand
 

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Thai relatives of a victim killed in a bomb blast outside a religious shrine grieve after identifying the body at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok on Tuesday.

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Thai family members gather around the coffin of a victim of the Erawan Shrine bombing at a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Thailand's prime minister promised to track down those responsible for the central Bangkok bombing which he described as the country's worst attack in history.
 

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A relative of Thai victim from Monday's bomb blast, Waraporn Changtam, places a flower near her picture while praying during a Buddhist funeral at a temple in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts o Bangkok, Thailand, August 19, 2015.
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Relatives of Lim Saw Gaik, 49 and son, Neoh Jai Jun, 20, victims of Monday’s bombing at a popular Bangkok shrine arrive to pay their final respects at the Neoh’s home in Penang, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Monday’s bombing at the Erawan Shrine, which authorities have called the worst in Thai history, killed 20 people and wounded 120 others. (Joshua Paul/Associated Press)
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Bangkok Shrine Bombing: Those Who Died


Seven members of a Malaysian family on holiday visited the Erawan Shrine on Monday evening. Five died in the attack. Earlier this photo was taken of them eating in Bangkok with a local guide. Neoh Ee Ling, second from left, and her father Neoh Hock Guan, third from right, were the only two to survive. Ee Ling's young daughter and husband died, as did Hock Guan's wife. Photo: Sin Chew Daily
BANGKOK — Terror was unleashed on an unprecedented scale in Bangkok on Monday night as an explosion, clearly intended to inflict maximum carnage, tore through a tourist site important for both secular and sacred reasons, turning Monday evening’s usual bustle into a horror of blood and human remains.

Twenty people died in the 6:55 pm blast, the worst such incident in the modern Thai state’s history. Nearly a dozen remain in critical condition.

While authorities vow to track down those responsible, and vectors of blame and suspicion are cast, attention must not stray from those who lost their lives.

Khaosod English is committed to gathering information about those whose lives ended last night or in the following hours, so that we may honor them respectfully and not let them be forgotten in the flurry of iterative news updates.

Though little is known of them at this time, some only names and nationalities, we will endeavor to learn more that we can share who they were in life.

This is a work in progress. If you are a family member, have reliable information or belong a news outlet with information to share, please contact us.

Here are the deceased, based on what we know about them so far.





Ms. Nam-oi Saengchan, 30, of Thailand

Nam-oi worked at a gift shop in the Lat Krabang area, her older sister Chantakansinee Sriwaranukul told Khaosod English. She was visiting Erawan Shrine to pray with two other friends. After the bomb went off, Chantakansinee said her family spent the rest of the night frantically searching for Nam-oi and only learned about her death on the following morning.





Mr. Suwan Sattayaman, 30 of Thailand

Suwan, called “Od,” was born with a disability affecting his arm. He couldn’t raise it much. But that didn’t stop him planting incense and candles for the worshipers who swarmed the Erawan Shrine daily. His main job was keeping it clean. He would travel about two-and-a-half hours back to Ratchaburi, sometimes with his father who also worked in Bangkok, to visit the home his family built entirely with money provided from his job at the shrine. They had just visited home Sunday, and his cousin Pichet Sakhonsith remembers Suwan – an avid cockfighting fan – asking the family to take care of one of his favorite roosters. He had a 6-year-old boy and a fiancee. The two planned marrying soon.

“It’s the wish of his mother that her son will be at his own home,” Pichet said.





The following five victims were relatives who traveled to Bangkok together by train from Malaysia two days before the bombing. Only two of the seven family members praying at the shrine on Monday night survived: Neoh Hock Guan, 55, and his five-month pregnant daughter, 33-year-old Neoh Ee Ling.



"Right now all I have left is my daughter and her child, and I don't know how much her pregnancy was affected," Hock Guan told reporters at the hospital on Tuesday.



Lim Saw Gek and her husband Neoh Hock Guan.
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Ms. Lim Saw Gek, 49 of Malaysia
Lim Saw Gek was the wife and mother of the two surviving family members who were paying respect to Erawan shrine when the bomb detonated. She died alongside her sister, son, granddaughter and son-in-law. She also survived by her 71-year-old mother, the matriarch of the family, who was at home in Malaysia when the bomb detonated. Saw Gek and her husband Hock Guan ran a successful pastry business from their home in Butterworth, Penang. When she wasn't baking cakes, Saw Gek was firing up "very delicious" dishes from at thick book of recipes she had been compiling for more than 30 years, said Lim Gim Seong, a friend of the family. For several years, she spent every Thursday preparing and delivering meals to a nursing home.



Ms. Lim So See, 52 of Malaysia

Lim So See was reported missing for several days after the blast, but her remains were identified on Wednesday. Her sister, who also died in the bombing, was the wife and mother of the only two family members who survived the blast. So See worked as a hairdresser in Singapore, where she lived with her 24-year-old son. He told Khaosod English she had many talents, like singing and belly dancing, and was "beautiful, smart, outgoing, approachable and fun."





Mr. Lee Tze Siang, 35 of Malaysia
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Lee Tze Siang died alongside his 4-year-old daugher Lee Jin Yuan while he was visiting the shrine on Monday night. Of the seven family members who traveling together in Bangkok, only his 33-year-old pregnant wife, Neoh Ee Ling, and his father-in-law Neoh Hock, 55, survived. He ran a clothing business in Penang and was described by a friend as a gentle and polite family man.



“During festivals, he'd be the one buying all the food for us,” his sister, Lee Tze We, 27, told Malay Mail.



Ms. Lee Jing Xuan, 4 of Malaysia
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4-year-old Lee Jing Xuan is the youngest known victim of the bombing. Of the six relatives who accompanied her at the shrine, only her mother, who was five months pregnant with a third child and her 55-year-old grandfather survived. Her father, aunt, uncle and grandmother also died in the blast. She is also survived by her 6-year-old brother, who did not accompany the family on the trip to Thailand.



Mr. Neoh Jai Jun, 20 of Malaysia
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Neoh Jai Jun, a 20-year-old student at a university in Taiwan, was visiting Bangkok with six of his relatives during a school break when the bomb claimed five of their lives. He died alongside his mother, aunt, brother-in-law, and niece. Only his father and sister survived. A friend of the family in Penang said Jai Jun was a hard-working student, who formed a tight-knit group of friends from secondary school and university.





Five of seven members of a Malaysian visiting the Erawan Shrine Monday were killed. Earlier this photo was taken of them eating in Bangkok with a local guide, seated at center. Neoh Ee Ling, second from left, and her father Neoh Hock Guan, third from right, were the only two to survive. Ee Ling's young daughter and husband died, as did Hock Guan's wife. Photo: Sin Chew Daily





Ms. Arcadia Pang Wan-chee, 24 of Hong Kong
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Pang Wan-chee, 24, went by the name Arcadia. She was traveling with 19-year-old Chang Wing Yan and a Thai girlfriend who also died in the blast. They were reportedly visiting the shrine in a group of five at the time. Two others survived their injuries. Arcadia was studying human resource management at the Institute of Vocational Education in Hong Kong, BBC reported.







Ms. Vivian Chan Wing Yan, 19 of Hong Kong
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Chan Wing Yan, a 19-year-old British national went by the name Vivian. She was traveling with another friend from Hong Kong, 24-year-old Pang Wan Chee, and a Thai girlfriend who also died in the blast. They were reportedly visiting the shrine with two others, who survived their injuries. Vivian graduated from the prestigious Harrow International School in Hong Kong in 2014 and went on to study law at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She had recently transferred to BPP University in London. Numerous tributes written on a Facebook page created to honor Vivian’s memory describe her as a warm and generous spirit with a sunny smile.

“You're cheerful and kind, always there to make us laugh,” read a post signed by Jeff Lok. “You were one of the first faces I came to know at university and had one of the brightest smiles I'd ever seen,” Serene Reza wrote.

Friends say Vivian was a passionate foodie who maintained a blog and popular Instagram account. On the day of the bombing, Vivian published a final Instagram photo of a crab dish, accompanied by an enthusiastic review of what she described as “one of the best seafood restaurants in Bangkok.”







Ms. Melisa Liu Rui Chun, 34 of Singapore
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Melisa died on the spot after the bomb exploded on Monday night. She was with her 35-year-old husband, Ng Su Teck, who was injured by glass shards from the explosion, according to Straits Times. She worked for the Singapore branch of the French insurance company AXA. Her brother was one of seven Singaporeans injured in the blast.





Lioe Lie Tjing, 61, from Indonesia

Lioe was killed while she was visiting the shrine with her husband, Hermawan Indrajaja, 61, who was taken to a hospital intensive care unit for treatment.





Ms. Gao Yu Zhu of China





Mr. Diwo Chengi of China





Ms. Suchada Niseeda, 32 of Thailand

Suchada hailed from the Chiang Kan district of Loei province. Her husband Santi Thetchan said Suchada would walk past Ratcharasong intersection after leaving her job at Standard Chartered Bank Thailand to catch a bus home. Before getting on the bus Monday, she and another bank colleague, Pranee Seesuwa, stopped by to pray at the shrine before continuing home. Both died in the blast. Suchada leaves behind her husband and 9-year-old daughter. She was to be cremated Saturday.

“I am really sad. I want to ask them, why did they not care about other people?” Santi said.





Ms. Pranee Seesuwa, 39 of Thailand

When Pranee felt troubled and needed someone to talk to, she would ask her friend and bank colleague Suchada Niseeda to join her for a prayer at Erawan, maybe get a bite to eat afterward before heading home to the Din Daeng area, her mother, Chantee Lao-udee said. At least once a year during New Year, Pranee would head home to Bueng Kan province, which is about as northeast as one can get in Thailand without being in Laos. She just arrived back in Bangkok on 3 Aug. from a rare second visit home this year, a return delayed because she was delighted to be together with her four siblings.


“My daughter joked that soon she might get to stay home forever and not have to go to work, because last night she dreamed she was fired by the bank director. I never thought that her words would be last time I saw her,” Chantee said.





Ms. Waraporn Changtham, 45 of Thailand

Not much is know about Waraporn Changtham yet, but that she worked for herself.





Mr. Yutthanarong Singharor, 38 of Thailand

Yutthanarong was often traveling around his native Bangkok. That was his job – delivering documents for his company located on the eastern fringe of Bangkok’s cosmopolitan core, just past Udom Suk. About an hour before the bomb went off, he phoned his brother to tell him he was making a run to deliver a document at CentralWorld, located catty-corner from the shrine. That was their last conversation.

“I don’t know how to live my life from now on,” Kritsuda Narongplian, his wife, said.
 

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