Bangkok blast: Bomb victims’ families angry over red tape


Relatives of Chinese victims from Monday's deadly blast cry at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok. - Reuters.

BANGKOK: Some of the relatives of those killed in Monday’s bombing at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok have already collected the remains of their loved ones from the Police General Hospital’s Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM).

But the IFM has had to defend itself from criticism from some of the families of foreign victims about the overly complicated and drawn out process of recovering the remains of their loved ones.

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