Breaking News - Bomb Blast In Bangkok

[Ric.ror]

Close to a shrine according to the BBC

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/08/17/large-explosion-bangkok/31840823/

[pusskin]

Oh no, this really saddens me. my sister in Perth has visited there many times and love the place. The people are so lovely and friendly. Feel so sorry for them all.

[Arksided]

I really can't understand the mentality of some people.

[jourdain2]

I have a good friend from schooldays who lives there, I'm about to email to check that she's OK. Terrible thing to happen and I'm thinking about all who may be hurt or killed and their families.

[pusskin]

My son is personally connected to a young girl who got killed in the Tunisian maniac beach murder! that shocked me to bits, and I fear the world is going crazy with lunatics intent on killing innocent holiday makers. So very sad.

[murraymints]

sosad

[Arksided]

My thoughts are with their families. I did come to the point where I avoided the news because of these mindless idiots.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33963280

[pusskin]

We moan about the state of England, but my God, I feel much safer here at the mo.

[youngmafbog]

There is no reason to feel safer here.

The friends of Jihad have made sure of that.

[Arksided]

We still have the scousers to contend with though, don't we though don't we.

[rockyracoon]

How awful. We stayed just down the road from there and it would be heaving with Thais and tourists. It looks like it exploded just underneath the Sky Train, I dread to think what would have happened if the explosion was more powerful :(

Has anyone admitted responsibility yet?

[naomi24]

/Has anyone admitted responsibility yet? //

Apparently not, but it's thought the blast was targeted at tourists.

[rockyracoon]

There would be just as many Thais in that area as well, so not so well thought out.

[Arksided]

No matter what sect they're from the cowardly nob-heads won't be to eager to own up to it.

[pusskin]

The bombers are hoping to also ruin the economy and bring it to its knees.

[naomi24]

Depends who did it, rocky. Perhaps the perpetrators view the rest of the people caught up in it simply as collateral damage. Just guessing.

[rockyracoon]

I dare say you're right Naomi. I don't know why, but it just makes it worse when you've been to a place where somehting has happened, gives me the shivers. I remember walking past this shrine :(

[naomi24]

I know.

[mikey4444]

I am slightly puzzled why so many people visit Thailand, when it is effectively a military dictatorship, and has plenty of civil unrest over the last few months and years ? What is this desire to go to dangerous places for a holiday all about ?

I am reminded of all those British tourists that had to be dragged, kicking and screaming from their sun loungers Tunisia, despite all the carnage that had just happened there. Some of them even said that they felt "safe" now, because "there were armed Police and Soldiers everywhere"

Seems a funny place to go on holiday, if you need to be surrounded by armed security 24 hours a day.