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“Security tightened in Bangkok after small bombing”
www.chinaview.cn 2007-05-06 13:52:26
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BANGKOK, May 6 (Xinhua) — Police stepped up security in the Thai capital on Sunday after a small bomb exploded at a public telephone booth late Saturday night, slightly injuring a man.
Security was especially tight around the Chitralada Palace, residence of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, near the Ratchvitee Road where the bombing site is located.
The bomb exploded at about 9:30 p.m. (1430 GMT) Saturday. A 22-year-old man who was about to make a phone call at the time was wounded by broken glass of the booth.
Acting national police chief Seripisut Temiyavej, Metropolitan police chief Adisorn Nonsee, and Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayothin rushed to the scene shortly after the explosion.
News network The Nation Sunday quoted Adisorn as saying that police set up road checkpoints around the palace on around-the-clock basis, and police dogs were also deployed to check the areas and government offices around the palace.
Adisorn said police bomb experts found that the explosives used in the blast did not have high destructive power, which means the bomb was not aimed to cause high damages or loss of lives.
He said the bomb was detonated by a timing device.”
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“Gunmen kidnap Russian woman in southern Nigeria: police”
Sun May 6, 4:29 AM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LAGOS (AFP) - Unknown gunmen have kidnapped a Russian woman in southern Nigeria’s oil capital Port Harcourt, the local police chief said Sunday.
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The woman, who works for a catering company, was abducted on Saturday around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Port Harcourt’s new Airforce Link Road, Commissionner Felix Ogbaudu said.
Local residents said the woman is married to a Nigerian from another southern state, Akwa Ibom, and that she was going home from work when she was snatched.
Over the past week alone 28 foreigners have been kidnapped in oil-rich southern Nigeria, although eight of them were released within hours of being seized.”