Tag: Tianjin blast

Thai police say suspect in Bangkok bombing arrested

AUGUST 30 (Reetres) — Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a suspect on Saturday (August 29) they said fitted the description of a man seen on security cameras leaving a rucksack at the site of the August. 17 Bangkok blast. Police raided an apartment in a northern suburb of the capital on Saturday afternoon and discovered possible bomb-making materials that could have been used in the evening attack in Bangkok’s bustling […]

Rescue work continues at Tianjin blast site

AUGUST 21 (Reuters) — Rescue work continued on Thursday in the central zone of last week’s blasts in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, while a cyanide producer sent teams to help clean up the site. To determine whether it was safe to carry out the clean-up operation, a chemical defense troop retrieved and tested samples from the site. A cyanide producer that supplied 700 tons of the cyanide involved in the blasts sent 140 people to […]