HAADYAI: Watch repairer Samran Sudtanom would have been a likely casualty of the blasts here had it not been for the call of nature.
The 37-year-old Thai national was using the toilet when the blast occurred. He was spared the full brunt of the blast which left his shop, located directly opposite the motorcycle bomb site in Ponpichai Road here, heavily damaged.
He sustained minor wounds and cuts on his leg from the broken toilet door.
Looking forlorn when met at his shop which he described as a “disaster”, Samran believed he saw the culprit who planted the motorcycle bomb there.
“Before I went inside…
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