8 killed as WW II bomb explodes in Bangkok
Thai soldiers stand next to a crater created by a bomb explosion at a scrap shop in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday
AP, Bangkok :Workers at a scrap shop in Thailand’s capital accidentally detonated a large bomb believed to have been dropped during World War II, killing at least eight people and injuring 20 others, police said.Police bomb squad chief Kamthorn Auicharoen said construction workers found the bomb buried at a building site and sold it to the scrap shop in northern Bangkok. He said workers at the shop were using a gas-powered thermal cutter to take the bomb apart when it exploded Wednesday.
