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"There are reports that among the casualties could be foreign tourists. Some media reports suggest the death toll has reached 15 but this is unconfirmed. Although we are not yet aware of the details of the attack, no group or individual has claimed it."

Bangkok has been relatively peaceful since a military coup ousted a civilian government in May last year after several months of sometime violent political protests against the previous government. However, there has been some tension in recent months as the ruling junta has made clear it may...

Jonathan Head, BBC's South Asia correspondent, has said on BBC News that usually attacks are "almost exclusively in the south and the targets are never tourist areas. "Nothing [has happened] on this scale, it's just awful. The injuries were catastropic - that is a very specific target in a very...

Police reporting that there could be a second (currently unexploded) bomb hidden inside the shrine

A bomb exploded outside a religious shrine in central Bangkok late on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding scores more, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. Body parts were scattered across the street after the bomb went off outside the Erawan Shrine in the downtown Chidlom...