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Small range bombings have occured in Bangkok early on New Year's Eve, wounding people in at least two places. Authorities cancelled New Year's Eve countdown.
Officials said Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont was preparing to speak to the nation and the press.
Witnesses told police in some places that they saw people throwing what looked to be grenades shortly before the explosions.
Thailand nation just ended the celebration of His Majesty the King's 60th year on the throne in 2006, the country seems to enter the New Year with new level of violence.
The Victory Monument (อนุสาวรีย์ชัยสมรภูมิ, Anusawari Chai Samoraphum) is a large military monument in Bangkok, Thailand. The monument is located in the district of Ratchathewi to the north-east of the centre of Bangkok, on a traffic island at the intersection of Phahon Yothin/Phaya Thai and Ratchawithi/Din Daeng Roads.
The monument was erected in June 1941 to commemorate the Thai victory in the brief war with the French colonial authorities in Indo-China, which resulted in Thailand annexing some territories in western Cambodia and northern and southern Laos. These were among the territories which the Kingdom of Siam had been forced to cede to France in 1893 and 1904, and patriotic Thais considered them rightfully to belong to Thailand.
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Second bombing occured at Lumpini Park which was created in the 1920s by King Rama VI on royal property. A statue of the king stands at the southwestern entrance to the park. It was named for Lumbini, the birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and at the time of its creation stood on the outskirts of the city.
Today it lies in the heart of the main business district and is in the Lumphini sub-district, on the north side of Rama IV Road, between Ratchadamri Road and Witthayu Road.
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