Security tightened in Bangkok after bank blasts

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Sunday systematic security tightened in Bangkok after dual palm grenades exploded outward branches of the country"s greatest bank, causing light repairs but no injuries.

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Four grenades were hurled at 4 branches of Bangkok Bank Pcl late on Saturday. Two exploded, deleterious write booths and bank windows, and dual were likely of safely, Abhisit pronounced during his Sunday sunrise speak show.

The blasts came a night after Thailand"s Supreme Court ruled suspended Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra had enriched himself at the responsibility of the state during his five years in power, seizing $1.4 billion of his family"s $2.3 billion in solidified assets.

Metropolitan Police Commander Lt-General Santhan Chayanon pronounced troops suspected the attacks were politically encouraged but combined it was as well beforehand to pinpoint censure on any group.

"We think third-hand agitators who wish to means difference in in between the supervision and anti-government organisation at a supportive time," he told Reuters.

The bank has been targeted not long ago by anti-government protesters and supporters of the twice-elected Thaksin, who was private in a 2006 troops manoeuvre and right away lives in self-imposed outcast in Dubai after being convicted in absentia of graft.

About 1,000 protesters from the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), Thaksin supporters who brand themselves by wearing red shirts, collected outward the bank"s domicile on Feb 19, forcing it to close the doors.

They credit the bank of associate capitalism for what they see as the ties to Prem Tinsulanonda, a former premier and arch confidant to Thailand"s worshiped king. Prem, a former Bangkok Bank adviser, is additionally indicted of personification a purpose in the manoeuvre opposite Thaksin.

Jatuporn Prompan, a UDD leader, denied any tie in in between the "red shirts" and the blasts. "We have zero to benefit from this sort of acts," he told reporters.

Abhisit additionally played down any tie to the red shirts, observant that the attacks were acts of "a small organisation of opportunists with domestic objectives."

"I do not hold it has anything to do with (anti-government) protesters," he said, adding he had asked security forces, the troops and the troops to set up some-more checkpoints and send out some-more patrols in Bangkok.

(Editing by David Fox)

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