“Three people received slight injuries from shrapnel,” said Renu Suesattaya, director of Suanluang district where the first bombs were reported. Bomb disposal experts were deployed around the Mahanakorn Tower — owned by the King Power group that counts Leicester City football club among its assets. The older “Red Shirt” pro-democracy group has also reacted with outrage to the election, but has so far remained off the streets with the army seemingly in an unassailable position. Then, “Red Shirt” protesters smashed their way into the summit venue in the resort city of Pattaya demanding elections. Paul Chambers, a political analyst at Naresuan University, said regardless of who the perpetrators are “they are trying to delegitimize, discredit and destabilize the Thailand summit and embarrass Thailand as hosts.”Read NextLATEST STORIESMOST READ

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 02, 2019 07:30 UTC