38 injured in Bangkok bomb blasts as antigov't protests continue
21:05, 17 January 2014
BANGKOK. January 17. KAZINFORM At least 38 demonstrators were injured Friday in two bomb blasts in Bangkok, as hundreds of thousands of people continued their protest to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down.
According to police, at least 36 people were injured in a blast that occurred just after 1 p.m. during a march in central Bangkok led by former Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who was said to be unharmed. Earlier, a bomb exploded at a protest site in northern Bangkok at around 1 a.m., injuring two demonstrators who had volunteered as security guards for the site, Kyodo reports.