Image
© Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
An explosive device has been thrown near a rail station in Bangkok, AFP reported, citing police. It comes just hours after a separate device was thrown from a bridge into the Chao Phraya River. No injuries have been reported.

"No one was killed or injured. Police are at the scene to investigate what kind of device it was," an officer at Yanawa police station, who asked not to be named, told AFP of the latest device.

He said the incident took place shortly after 1 p.m. local time near the Saphan Taksin BTS skytrain station.

Device thrown from bridge

Reports indicate the first device was a hand grenade. However, it missed its intended target and fell into the river below, before exploding beneath the surface.

The incident happened beneath the Taksin Bridge, in the center of the city, where a number of ferry companies operate, taking tourists around the city's waterways.

Police are currently at the scene and have sealed off the area while they look for and collect evidence.

Colonel Natakit Siriwongtawan, deputy police chief of the Klongsan district, said an unidentified man threw the explosive near a busy pier on the city's Chao Phraya River and that it landed in a canal.

"If it did not fall in the water then it certainly would have caused injuries," he said, as cited by Reuters.

This latest terror attack comes just hours after a bomb exploded near a shrine in the commercial and tourist center of the Thai capital, which killed at least 22 people, of whom at least eight were foreigners. Over 120 were reported to have been injured, according to local media reports following Monday evening's blast.

It is not known at present if the blasts are linked.