TRT receives bomb hoax
The Thai Rak Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok received a bomb threat on Monday but a thorough sweep through the building by the police came up with nothing.
Pol Major General Anand Sri-hiran said the threat was made by a phone call at about 9:30 am. The unidentified caller said the bomb was scheduled to go off at 11:00 am, he said.Police and bomb squad rushed to the headquarter on Rama III Road immediately after the call. "It appeared that the caller was aiming at creating some sort of disturbances," Anand said. The threat came amid heightening political tension as the Constitutional Court is set to rule Wednesday as to decide to dissolve the TRT and the Democrat Party. TRT was formed by ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the Democrat Party, Thailand's oldest, faced electoral fraud charges linked to annulled elections in April 2005.
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