Bangkok police investigate the scene.
A man believed to be an Iranian national lost his leg Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying in downtown Bangkok went off unexpectedly.
Police say the man fled an explosion in a house he was staying in earlier in the day, and threw an explosive device at a taxicab when it did not stop for him. He then hurled a grenade at officers pursuing him and it somehow bounced back at him and exploded, blowing off his left leg.
Security forces found more explosives in the man’s rented house in the Thai capital.
Another Iranian was detained at Bangkok’s international airport as he attempted to leave for Malaysia, the Washington Post quoted police as saying, but it was unclear whether he was linked to the blasts.
Although Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Paul Hirschon, said there was “nothing concrete” indicating that Israeli or Jewish sites in Bangkok were intended targets, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak linked the incident to the bombing of Israeli embassy car in New Delhi and a failed bombing incident in Tbilisi as being the work of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, which is backed by Tehran.
“Iran and Hezbollah are unrestrained terrorist elements, a danger to the stability of the region and a danger to world stability,” Barak said.
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I’m shocked!! Iranians are such peace loving people!!