BANGKOK (AFP) - At least sixteen people were injured in a blast in a popular Bangkok shopping district Sunday, health officials said, further amplifying tensions a day after gunmen opened fire on an anti-government rally in eastern Thailand, killing a five-year-old girl.
Blood was splattered on the pavement as soldiers and police sealed off the area - opposite one of Bangkok's biggest shopping malls and near several high-end hotels in the capital's commercial heart - according to an AFP photographer at the scene,
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