page_title: 2006 Bangkok bombings
section_title: Forensic evidence
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 Bangkok bombings / Forensic evidence
caption_attribution_description: English: The ITV television channel providing complete coverage of the New Year blasts in Bangkok 2007. Pictured here is one of their broadcast vans parked inside the Rajavithee Hospital, where most of the victims of the blasts were treated. Image provided by Manik Sethisuwan 21:29, 3 February 2007 (UTC), The Sethisuwan Group, (January 2007).
context_page_description: The 2006 Bangkok bombings occurred on 31 December 2006 and 1 January 2007, during New Year's Eve festivities in Bangkok, Thailand. Four explosions went off almost simultaneously in different parts of the city at around 18:00 local time, followed by several more explosions within the next 90 minutes. Two explosions also occurred after midnight. In total, eight explosions were reported during the night.
  As of 1 January 2007, three people were confirmed dead and more than 38 injured. One additional bomb exploded inside a cinema, but went unreported until the next day due to fears of negative publicity. The next morning, a bomb exploded in a mosque in Chiang Mai, the largest city in northern Thailand. Authorities ordered all public New Year's Eve events cancelled, including the countdown at the CentralWorld shopping center and the alms-giving at Sanam Luang.
  Chiang Mai police claimed the Chiang Mai mosque's janitor confessed to making that bomb, and a man was arrested in Bangkok for carrying an explosive device. However, no one has ever claimed responsibility for the Bangkok bombings.
context_section_description: Police General Ajiravid Subarnbhesaj claimed that all eight bombs were placed in 3x5-inch boxes and detonated by digital alarm clock. Traces of M4 high explosive booster were found in all of the bombs.  Other military ordnance sources claimed the bombs were all ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO)/M4 bombs.  This would make the bombs the same type as had been found in a car outside Thaksin Shinawatra's residence in August 2006.
  The police were criticised for barring Central Institute of Forensic Science acting director Pornthip Rojanasunand from collecting evidence at a bombing site in Pratunam. Pornthip called the police unprofessional because they mainly focused on the type of bomb that was used, rather than the identity of the bombers, and let city cleaners sweep up the site before the collection of evidence was completed.
  Prime Minister Surayud ruled out involvement of Southern insurgents. He claimed that forensic reports showed that the bombs were assembled "to look like those used by the Southern insurgents" but that detailed examination of the explosions and modus operandi indicated no link.
caption: An ITV news van is parked at the Rajavithee Hospital, where most of the victims of the blasts were treated.
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