Blast in Thai capital Bangkok kills at least 12

Bangkok, Aug 17 (ANI): A bomb on a motorcycle exploded on Monday (August 17) just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital, killing at least 12 people, according to police and a rescue worker. Reports suggest that at least 20 have been injured in the incident. The blast took place near the Erawan shrine at a major Bangkok intersection, police said. A witness at the scene said she saw pieces of human flesh near the blast site, and a soldier later told onlookers to move back, saying they were checking for a second bomb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Thai forces are fighting a low-level Muslim insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country's south, although those rebels have rarely launched attacks outside their ethnic Malay heartland. The country has also been riven for a decade by intense and sometimes violent rivalry between political factions in Bangkok and elsewhere. The army has ruled Thailand since May 2014, when it ousted an elected government a