An elegant resort town with royal heritage, Hua Hin looked more like a war zone than a tourist hotspot Friday, with bodies in the streets and blood on the pavement after a series of deadly attacks.
Forensics teams in protective gear combed through the wreckage left by coordinated bomb blasts that hit late Thursday and early Friday, killing two people and wounding scores more, including foreigners.
"This sort of thing does not happen here in Hua Hin," said Kevin Mcbeath, an Australian retiree who, like many residents of the upmarket town some 200 kilometres south of Bangkok, was shaken by the fatal attacks.
"(It's a) nice quiet place to retire, a lot of expats here," he told AFP, adding the bombings were "not good at all" for the popular holiday destination.
Both local Thais and foreign tourists usually flock to the peaceful town known for its chic hotels and pristine beaches, with the area busier than usual Thursday ahead of a major holiday weekend.
"I was a bit shocked," said Danish tourist Peter Klinge Kryger, 65, who was on holiday in Hua Hin and woken by the blasts.
"It's my holiday, I don't want to stay in my room everyday," he told AFP, adding he did not plan to let the bombings ruin his one-month trip to Thailand.
German, Italian, Dutch and Austrian nationals were among the wounded, according to staff at local hospitals, after the blasts tore through the popular main strip next to the beach.
The town's many bars and restaurants were shuttered Friday, as investigators behind police crime scene tape picked through the detritus for clues.
Some local residents laid floral tributes to the attacks' victims in a small public garden that was gutted by the blasts.
A street vendor's cart, mangled and twisted from the explosions, lay amid the wreckage, covered in soil from the plant pots where the bombs had been hidden.
Source:yahoonews
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