Explosive device thrown near Bangkok rail station, no injuries: police


Divers retrieve and send up surviving pieces of an explosive device to members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Thai forensic police officers to be inspected at Sathorn pier, Bangkok, Thailand, 18 August 2015. - EPA

BANGKOK, Aug 18, 2015 (AFP) - A small device was thrown into a canal and exploded near a busy train station in central Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon, police said, a day after a bomb killed 20 at a religious shrine.

"No one was killed or injured. Police are at the scene to investigate what kind of device it was," an officer at Yanawa police station, who asked not to be named, told AFP.

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