{"id":5852,"date":"2014-04-03T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5852"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:11:07","slug":"old-bomb-explodes-in-bangkok-scrap-shop-as-workers-dismantle-it-killing-7-and-injuring-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/03\/old-bomb-explodes-in-bangkok-scrap-shop-as-workers-dismantle-it-killing-7-and-injuring-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Old bomb explodes in Bangkok scrap shop as workers dismantle it, killing 7 and injuring 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; font-size: medium;\"><span class=\"Date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_146527205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5875\" alt=\"shutterstock_146527205\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_146527205.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_146527205.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_146527205-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>BANGKOK, Thailand &#8211; Workers at a scrap shop in Thailand&#8217;s capital on Wednesday accidentally detonated a large bomb believed to have been dropped during World War II, killing at least seven people and injuring 19 others, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police bomb squad chief Kamthorn Auicharoen said construction workers found the bomb buried at a building site and sold it to the scrap shop in northern Bangkok. He said workers at the shop were using a gas-powered thermal cutter to take the bomb apart when it exploded.<\/p>\n<p>The massive blast ripped apart the scrap shop in Bangkok&#8217;s Lad Plakao neighbourhood and damaged nearby houses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s likely this is a bomb dropped from a plane during World War II,&#8221; Kamthorn said.<\/p>\n<p>Construction workers on another project found a similar bomb in a different area of Bangkok just this past Saturday, but it was safely handed over to police explosive experts.<\/p>\n<p>Bangkok was bombed by U.S. and British planes during World War II, when it was occupied by Japanese forces and served as a hub for their campaign in Southeast Asian. Buried bombs from the era continue to be found from time to time in other major Asian cities, including Hong Kong and Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 BANGKOK, Thailand &#8211; Workers at a scrap shop in Thailand&#8217;s capital on Wednesday accidentally detonated a large bomb believed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[561,281,482],"class_list":["post-5852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-as","tag-explosion","tag-thailand","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}