At least 22 people, including three Chinese citizens, were killed on Monday when a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded outside a shrine in the Thai capital, police said.
The Chinese embassy in Thailand has confirmed with Thai police that another 15 Chinese citizens were among the injured.
Over 120 people, including more than 10 Chinese, were in Police General Hospital, according to a Global Times journalist based in Thailand.
The explosives were planted and aimed at taking lives, national police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang said.
The injured, including Thais, Chinese nationals and Filipinos, were taken to nearby hospitals, according to the police.
The Chinese embassy in Thailand was trying to confirm the exact number of Chinese citizens killed or injured, while the consulate general was leading a contingency team that went to hospitals to make sure injured Chinese were properly treated.
The embassy sent translators to the hospitals to help with communication.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which occurred just outside the Erawan shrine at a major intersection.
A China Central Television reporter quoted police in Bangkok as saying that TNT was used in the bomb, and that a bomb disposal unit had dismantled two suspected explosive devices.
"The perpetrators intended to destroy the economy and tourism because the incident occurred in the heart of the tourism district," Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said.
The Erawan shrine, on a busy corner in the Thai capital near top hotels, shopping centres, offices and a hospital, is a major attraction, especially for visitors from East Asia, including China. Many ordinary Thais also worship there.
"It was like a meat market," said Marko Cunningham, a New Zealand paramedic working with a Bangkok ambulance service, who said the blast had left a two-metre-wide (6-foot-) crater.
"There were bodies everywhere. Some were shredded. There were legs where heads were supposed to be. It was horrific," Cunningham said, adding that people several hundred metres away had been injured.
泰國警方周一稱，都城繁榮地段四面佛鄰近，一枚安頓在摩托車上的炸彈被引爆，造成最少22人罹難，個中包含3名中國國民。
中國駐泰國大使館已同泰國警方確認，尚有15名中國國民受傷。
據全球時報駐泰國記者報導，有跨越120名傷者住進了曼谷警員總病院，包含十多名中國人。
泰國警員總長Somyot Pumpunmuang稱，該炸彈的安置因此工資目的。
警方先容，傷者包含泰國人、中國人和菲律賓人，已被送往鄰近的病院。
中國駐泰國大使館正在肯定中國國民傷亡的詳細數字，總領事也引導應急小組赴病院確保中國國民獲得妥當安頓。
大使館還派出翻譯到病院幫忙相同交換事情。
對付這起產生在曼谷重要景區四面佛鄰近的爆炸案，今朝尚未任何構造和小我宣告對這發難件賣力。
中心電視台記者援用曼谷警方的說法，這枚炸彈中含有TNT火藥，拆彈軍隊還拆除兩個疑似引爆裝配。
“打擊者想要損壞泰國的經濟和旅行業，由於爆炸產生在泰國旅行的中間地區。”泰國防部長 Prawit Wongsuwan說道。
四面佛處於泰國都城曼谷繁榮地區，四周是高級旅店、購物中間、寫字樓和病院，是重要的旅行景區，特別對包含中國在內的東亞旅客，很多泰國人也都簇擁至此。
“現場像肉市般淩亂。”一名名叫Marko Cunningham的新西蘭醫護職員說道，他在曼谷搶救中間事情，稱爆炸造成地上湧現一個直徑2米(6英尺)的大坑。
“隨處都是屍首，有的肢體都被炸掉了，到處散落殘肢斷臂，太恐懼了，”他說，遠隔數百米外的人也受傷了。
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