Bangkok blasts: Powerful bomb explosions inside popular Brahma temple kill 27, injure 117

[caption id=“attachment_2396554” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Thai soldiers inspect the scene after a bomb exploded outside the Erawan shrine in central Bangkok. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396560” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Thai rescue workers help the injured after the bomb explosion outside the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396562” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Twenty seven people, including four foreigners, were killed and 117 others injured in the powerful bomb blast inside a hugely popular Lord Brahma temple in a crowded area in Bangkok. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396564” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A Thai soldier ropes off the scene after the bomb explosions in Bangkok. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396566” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Thai rescue workers transport damaged motorcycles from the scene of a bomb blast. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396568” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Policemen stand at the cordoned-off site of a bomb blast at the popular Erawan shrine. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2396570” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] The death toll from a bomb blast in the Thai capital rose to 21 on August 18 with 123 wounded, police said, with seven tourists from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore among those killed in the attack. AFP[/caption]