BREAKING VIDEO: Dramatic Dashcam Footage of the Bangkok Bombing

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BANGKOK — Local media reports at least 16 are dead and 80 others are injured after an explosion rocked a popular tourist area ther. Police say the blast was caused by a motorcycle bomb.

A BBC Corespondent reported there is a huge amount of chaos with “body parts scattered everywhere” and a “crater that does indicate a bomb attack.”‘

If this confirmed, he says, it would be rare for the capital.

The attack took place close to the Erawan Shrine in the capital’s central Chidlom district.

A BBC correspondent says this a very well known shrine in the centre of Bangkok, next to a five-star hotel.

No terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

National police spokesman Lt Gen Prawut Thavornsiri told Agence France-Presse news agency: “I can confirm it was a bomb, we can’t tell which kind yet, we are checking.”

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