Bomb attacks in Thailand in August 2016

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Attack sites on August 11 and 12, 2016

In the August 2016 bombings in Thailand, eleven bombs detonated in five provinces in southern Thailand within 24 hours.

On the evening of August 11, 2016, one bomb was detonated in the Thai province of Trang and two in the seaside resort of Hua Hin . The next day, August 12, further explosives detonated in several provinces of Thailand: two in Hua Hin, two on the holiday island of Phuket (in Loma Park, which is popular with tourists, and in Patong near a police station) and two each in the southern Thai provinces of Surat Thani and Phang-nga . A total of four people were killed and 30 others injured.

August 12 is a public holiday in Thailand as Queen Sirikit 's birthday and Mother's Day , where public celebrations take place across the country and many Thai people go on excursions. As part of the investigation, additional explosives were found in Hua Hin and Phuket that had not detonated and could be defused.

So far, nobody has confessed to the attacks. The Thai government has qualified the acts as "local sabotage" and excluded links to international terrorism. While police forensic scientists found that the bombs were similar in design to those used by insurgents in the conflict in southern Thailand , both the military junta ("National Council for Peace and Order") and the deputy director of the national police denied a connection to the separatist uprising in the extreme southern provinces. Instead, it was suggested that a local politician coordinated the attacks and that these were linked to domestic political conflicts following the constitutional referendum on August 7, 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fear returns to Thailand. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 12, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kocha Olarn, Joshua Berlinger, Lauren Said-Moorhouse: Thailand rocked by 11 bombs in one day. CNN Asia, August 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Police discover more bombs . Tagesschau.de, August 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Bomb series shakes Thailand's tourist destinations. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , August 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thailand: Police discover more bombs . DW, August 14, 2016.
  6. ^ South insurgency linked to blasts. In: Bangkok Post (online), August 15, 2016.