WRAP Bombs explode in capital, at least 2 dead, PM visits injured ADDS site of latest blast
(1 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST ++NIGHT SHOTS++ Klong Toey, Bangkok - 31 December 2006 1. Wide shot of vegetable market, with destroyed motorbike, tilt down to blood on ground 2. Close-up of blood and other debris from blast 3. Motorbike on ground; pan left to blood pool beside it 4. Various of police officers at scene 5. Wide of onlookers behind cordon 6. Various of emergency vehicles at scene 7. Police specialist gathering equipment from back of car 8. Police officer standing beside car holding plastic bags 9. Wide of police specialists at back of car Central Bangkok 10. Wide of police searching for evidence at Victory monument blast site 11. Pan left of blast site 12. Close-up of blood pool on street 13. Various of police investigating blast site 14. Wide of police officer standing guard, Victory monument in background 15. More of police investigating blast area 16. Wide of investigators, emergency vehicles in background 17. Armed soldiers standing guard 18. More of police investigation site 19. More of damaged area 20. Onlookers 21. Blast site 22. More of police investigating 23. High wide of blast site 24. Various of revellers at Bangkok's biggest 2006 New Year countdown venue 25. Pan of rows of empty chairs 26. Apirak Kosayothin, Bangkok Governor (green top) at the site of one of the cancelled celebrations 27. SOUNDBITE (English) Apirak Kosayothin, Bangkok Mayor: "We will keep the people closely informed. We don't need to panic, and again, to be on the safe side I think we'd rather let people go back home first for tonight and, after that, after we check for certainty we will have an official announcement again, thank you." 28. SOUNDBITE (German) Anne Kaiser, German tourist: "It's terrible, war is always here. People just wanted to celebrate and be happy." 29. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Antonio Monaco, Italian tourist: "I don't know why it was cancelled, but now I will go back to the hotel." 30. Various of police at the scene 31. Interim Thai Prime Minister, General Surayud Chulanont coming out of hospital lift 32. SOUNDBITE (Thai) General Surayud Chulanont, Thailand's Interim Prime Minister: "The bomb that went off spontaneously in many locations might have been an action that's been planned ahead. As for who's behind this, we will have to wait for the police investigation." 33. Cutaway of bodyguard 34. Surayud walking away 35. Surayud walking in Emergency Room 36. Surayud speaking to patient 37. Surayud leaving hospital 38. Surayud climbing into car 1 January 2007 39. Wide of Gaysorn Plaza and Central World Plaza 40. Emergency vehicle arriving at scene 41. Emergency truck and debris on ground 42. Wide of scene 43. Debris 44. Wide of people and police cordoning off scene 45. Various of police inspecting telephone box 46. Man crying and being treated STORYLINE: Nine bombs exploded across Bangkok on New Year's Eve (Sunday) and early on New Year's Day (Monday), killing two people, wounding 34, at least six of them foreigners, and driving thousands of revellers home. Three blasts minutes after midnight wounded eight people, including the six foreigners, the iTV television station reported. One foreigner was rushed to a hospital with one of her legs blown off, the report said. Earlier, six blasts rocked the Thai capital, prompting the city to cancel major public celebrations, police and health officials said. The culprits and motive were not immediately known. The bombings in several parts of the city capped a year of unrest in Thailand, including a military coup three months ago and a mounting Muslim insurgency in the south. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
