Unused telephone booths to be closed or removed
Security meeting held after a bomb explosion near Chitralada Palace on Saturday agree on Sunday that public telephone booths in remote areas or that were rarely used would be closed down to prevent ill-intentioned groups to use as attacking spots.
Assistant Police Chief Pol Lt Col Jongrak Jutanont said the meeting assigned police and city authorities to survey the public telephone booths throughout the capital to know the number and the locations of the telephone booths that were in remote spots or not rarely used."The telephone booths in such conditions would be removed or closed down to prevent them from being used as bombing spots," said Jongrak, who is chief investigator into the Saturday bombing attack. The small explosive device went off on Saturday night at a public telephone booth on a road opposite Chitralada Palace, slightly injuring a 22-year-old man. Earlier a bomb blast went off at a public booth in front of a cinema complex on Phaholyothin road earlier this year. Jongrak said that Bangkok authorities were asked to put more lights at the telephone booths in Bangkok and to install security cameras there. The police general was speaking after attending an urgent meeting with security officials and the city authorities following the Saturday bomb explosion. He added that police are gathering information involving in the attacks. "Police talked to owners of a house that is close to the telephone booths to learn of unusual and suspicious persons and activities in prior to the incident," he said. Meanwhile Deputy Police Chief Gen Patcharawat Wongsuwan said that more police would be deployed from 1,500 officers to 3,000 to provide safety for people, government offices and embassies. Some 1,000 others officers would be ready to act if needed, he said. The Nation
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