One dead, 19 injured in Thailand resort town blasts


Still image from video uploaded to social media shows the scene following a bomb blast in Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, Thailand August 11, 2016. - Photo courtesy of Rungrot Kongpiban/Social Media via Reuters Tv

BANGKOK: Twin blasts in Thailand killed one woman and injured 19 people, including foreigners, in the popular seaside resort town of Hua Hin late Thursday night, police said.

The explosions took place thirty minutes apart in the bar district of the popular beach town, the latest incident to threaten Thailand’s reputation as a holidaymaker’s paradise.

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