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heard any claim of responsibility. we re still waiting to hear what or who planted this bomb and what their motives were. the significance of the location, though, is very important. this is right in the heart of bangkok, a very popular tourist attraction. it is. it s basically the epicenter of bangkok shopping and tourism. across the road from the shrine is one of the largest shopping malls in bangkok, the central world mall. beside that, you have the intercontinental hotel, you have severalor large hotel there is and it s a major intersection. you have a train line that runs over top of it. there s so many people going through that place. so whoever set off this bomb was doing it to maximize the maximum damage because there would have been so many people there at the time. also you have to remember that was 7:00 at night when it happened and people were going home. people were leaving work.
body parts are scattered throughout the area and many, many people are injured. it s just truly heartbreaking because these people were visiting a temple, you know, number one and visiting a beautiful country in a beautiful city of bangkok. caller: yeah. and one that has very little track record of this kind of activity. southeast asia, in general, is a peaceful part of the world. and bangkok is, you know, celebrates itself being a place where people from around the world can come and enjoy lots of different activities, great food, loving, loving people very friendly to tourists in general. it s like putting a knife through the heart not only of bangkok but thailand or thai people. it is a big, big shock.
this happened in the heart of bangkok near a popular hindu shrine during rush hour. let s bring in our reporter. what s the latest on this investigation? reporter: yeah, absolutely, ana. striking, as you say, at the heart of bangkok, thailand. this location, incredibly popular with tourists from right around the world. people coming from the united states and chinese making up the most tourists coming there. this is a central location. it s a shrine that is dedicated to a hindu god but visited by the sheik community. it s a major attraction and that s why, of course, thailand s military-run government is going to focus on why this was targeted. of course, one of the reasons is it was incredibly popular area.
and a lot of tourists were going through that area at the same time because it also is the end of the school holiday season so it s kind of you do shopping and you go and have a look at the shrine and you can go in there, you can buy flower, you can say a prayer and that place would have been incredibly busy at that time of day. the hindu shrine in the heart of bangkok. finally, mark, some v suggested this area would be the equivalent of times square in new york. is that an accurate description? . fairly good because it s a very, very busy part of bangkok. a lot of pedestrians walking around there and it s a major intersection there where there have been demonstrations that s the place where they all go knowing full well bangkok stops if you close down that intersection and bangkok does stop. so whoever planted this device knew the same thing would happen. they knew that this was they