BANGKOK, Feb 19 (TNA) — Police were checking surveillance camera footage to identify a suspect who laid what looked like bombs on Inthamara 55 Road.
Explosive ordnance disposal officials rushed to the scene to handle two suspicious objects found on the road at 11am.
One appeared to be an improvised explosive device and the other was an L56 practice grenade. They were placed at the base of a power pole. Police of the Sutthisan station closed the road for public safety.
Bomb experts later found that the practice grenade was powerless and the other object was a fake bomb, a can made to look like a bomb.
Pol Col Termpao Siripubal, chief of the Sutthisan police station, said police were checking footage from local surveillance cameras to identify a suspect.
He believed it was intended to be a threat. The chief did not comment if the incident was related to politics or any conflict of local people. He said police were investigating it. (TNA)
