Bangkok, thailand where authorities are trying to find whos responsible for a bombing in a popular tourist area. [ blast ] this video shows crowds of pedestrians during evening rush hour as the bomb exploded on monday. At least 22 people are dead, including three chinese nationals. More than 100 people are injured. Cnn spoke with witnesses who saw the blast and the aftermath. At first i really couldnt understand, because my ears were ringing, and i thought i was on a movie set. And it looked like any other hollywood movie. The but then i was like, this has to be a bomb. I could see in front of my eyes. At first i thought it was an accident. Glass shattered and probably something just exploded. But no, what i felt was enormous. Many people were very badly injured of the and i saw three on the ground right next to the shrine. Many would have gone into the hospital right next to the blast scene, and the issue is that once that hospital filled up, the wounded were taken to different hospit
something else, but i could be wrong. do you make anything of the warning the police say they received. i always think if they call ahead, they re not coming. i don t know, warning, there s a lot of violence in thailand. whether it was connected with this, the fact that the police have no clue who is behind this bombing doesn t tell me that they can really associate with warning. you know, all these reports, the early reports are often inaccurate, and i think we re going to find out a lot by tomorrow. bill baer there. let s go back to marco cunningham who is a paramedic who works for bangkok free ambulance. so can you describe the injuries that people had suffered? absolutely horrific. the injuries were so serious that it was very difficult to prioritize the patients.
shrine was just like shredded into pieces. unfortunately, marco, we re having a few problems hearing you right now. we re trying to get that worked out. because marco was on the scene very, very quickly, and what he has described is bodies shredded by the power of this blast. he treated as many of them as he could. and he did say it was one of the worst scenes he has seen. we ll try to get marco back. maybe we can continue talking with him. in the meantime, police say they believe it was a pipe-bomb. i asked bob behr about that a short time ago. i doubt that it s a pipe-bomb. it could have been, but with that many deaths, it s usually a sophisticated pipe-bomb. a couple other things is they attacked a tourist site.
tourists. it was not far from several international hotels as well as upmarket shopping centers. a paramedic was on the scene rescuing the survivors and joins us now via skype. marco, what were you doing at the time, and can you describe the home you heard the blast? what did you think? caller: okay, i have an area i work, and it s next to the area where the bomb dropped. so i didn t hear the bomb blast, it s about 2 or 3 kilometers away, but i went to it because it was a big case, with quite a few injuries. at first we thought it was an rpg or cng had exploded in a taxi, which they often do in thailand. and so i went to it. but when i got there i realized that was not the case. and then when i parked my motorcycle ambulance and walked across the road, i d seen the