24 hurt in Bangkok military hospital blast

Updated - January 11, 2018 at 09:43 PM.

There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital

A bomb blast at a hospital in the Thai capital, Bangkok, wounded 24 people on Monday, on the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup.

There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital, which is popular with retired military officers. “It was a bomb. We found the pieces that were used to make the bomb,” Kamthorn Aucharoen, commander of the police's explosive ordnance team, told Reuters . “Right now, authorities are checking out closed circuit cameras.”

Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said 24 people had been wounded.

Published on May 22, 2017 08:00