BANGKOK/HUA HIN, Thailand Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Thai political party whose governments have been overthrown by the country’s ruling generals denied on Saturday having any role in the bomb attacks on popular tourist destinations that killed four people and wounded dozens. Fears that followers of former prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck Shinawatra, including an opposition movement sympathetic to the Shinawatras known as the “red shirts,” could be blamed prompted a senior figure in their Puea Thai Party to issue a sharp denial. "People, through social media, are sending messages saying Thaksin Shinawatra is behind these events,” Noppadon Pattama, a former foreign minister, said. No group has claimed responsibility for the wave of bombings, which sent shudders through the tourism industry, one of the few bright spots in Thailand’s sluggish economy. His sister Yingluk swept to power in an election in 2011, before being ousted in another coup in 2014.

Source: Huffington Post August 13, 2016 13:52 UTC