City workers in Bangkok alerted the authorities to what eventually turned out to be a dud grenade in the residential area of Ramkhamhaeng yesterday afternoon.
Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) officers were deployed after the workers, who were cleaning the city’s drain, found a mysterious object in the traffic island of Ramkhamhaeng Road under Lam Sali flyover.
Officials sealed off the area and closed one lane on each side of the road for safety, but it turned out the object was a dud M67 grenade, according to Commander of EOD Pol. Col. Kamthorn Auichareon.
He insisted the bomb’s condition was unusable and suspected the grenade was buried in the area for a long time.
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Pol. Kamthorn said he did not believe the dud grenade was related to the bombings in Hua Hin, Phuket, Trang, and Surat Thani last week, Nation TV reported.
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