TWO homemade time bombs detonated outside of Siam Paragon Shopping Centre last evening prompted an emergency evacuation, and one man was slightly injured.
According to the Bangkok Post, the bombs were concealed behind a transformer at BMA Express Service and exploded on a walkway between Siam BTS station and Siam Paragon at 20.00.
Civilians were evacuated from Siam Paragon and the surrounding areas and police closed off roads in the vicinity, said the daily.
BTS train services were stopped at 20.10 after the explosion but resumed at 20.38, said The Nation.
The police were quoted by the Bangkok post as saying that the bombs “were not intended to kill”.
Siam Paragon is a popular mall for tourists and shoppers that garnered it the title of the world’s most Instagram-med place in 2013.
