Sriwara orders inquiry into bombs found in parking space
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Lt-General Sriwara Rangsipramanakul has ordered a probe into a plastic bag stuffed with explosives and ammunition that was found in his reserved parking space at his office's compound yesterday morning, an informed source
“He expects to get the probe results within 15 days,” the source said.
Cleaners spotted the suspicious bag at 10am and alerted an explosive ordnance disposal team.
An inspection by the team showed the weapons inside the bag were still in usable condition. The team safely removed the items from the car park zone.
Pol Maj-General Sombat Milintajinda, a commander at the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said it was possible the bag contained weapons seized during the 2014 political unrest and might have been left at Sriwara’s parking lot by accident.
“I don’t think the bag was intended to harm him,” Sombat said. “He usually doesn’t park there anyway.”
Sriwara also said the explosives did not seem to have been planted for any attack on life.
“The safety pins on the grenades were not removed. They are also properly covered with paper,” he pointed out.
So far, he refused to confirm whether these war weapons were related to political turmoil.
“We have to investigate this. We have to find out how the war weapons ended up in that spot,” he said.
