Bit of a half arsed article, no link to reports of the previous two attacks and leaves out info if they were on foreigners also etc. Would have thought a series of acid attacks would merit a bit more of a write up than this, maybe more will be revealed soon...female foreign artist, Elizabeth Briel, reported on twitter on Friday that she and her husband had acid sprayed at their faces at the Asoke skytrain station last night.
She said the acid was directed at them from the stairway leading to the station near Robinson shopping mall.
Mrs Briel said her husband's eyes were damaged but would be okay, while she has a burnt scalp.
They were treated at Bumrungrad hospital.
The hospital said this is the third case they have seen lately.
Acid attacks on foreigners in Bangkok
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Acid attacks in Bangkok
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... -sukhumvit
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Not sure if this is the best forum for this news.
From twitter: @EbrielAcid attack on foreigners at train station
A female foreign artist, Elizabeth Briel, reported on twitter on Friday that she and her husband had acid sprayed at their faces at the Asoke skytrain station last night.
She said the acid was directed at them from the stairway leading to the station near Robinson shopping mall.
Mrs Briel said her husband's eyes were damaged but would be okay, while she has a burnt scalp.
They were treated at Bumrungrad hospital.
The hospital said this is the third case they have seen lately.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... -sukhumvit
We were attacked in #Bangkok tonight - someone sprayed acid -or bleach- at our faces. @BumrungradH says this is the 3rd they've seen lately.
Asoke, s/o sprayed us from BTS steps near Robinson. My husband lost the conjunctuva in his eyes, will be ok.I've just a burnt scalp.
Random attack near BTS Asoke, just at us.We're up in a few hrs 4 the doctors-'night!
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Yes. That tweet appeared in my timeline this morning too. She lived here in Cambodia for years.
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Elizabeth is a good friend of mine IRL. Just sent her a message, weirdly enough it's her birthday today. I'll report again when I know more...
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I learned about it on Twitter.
It has me reconsidering my family trip to Bangkok next week. If it was just me, I don't think it would affect my plans. But I now worry aboit taking my kids there.
If this post would be would be better placed in a different forum, please feel free to move it.
It has me reconsidering my family trip to Bangkok next week. If it was just me, I don't think it would affect my plans. But I now worry aboit taking my kids there.
If this post would be would be better placed in a different forum, please feel free to move it.
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And a merge of the two threads before they go off on different tangents.
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http://elizabethbriel.com/dear-thailand
Well written piece about the incident from the woman involved.
Well written piece about the incident from the woman involved.
Speaking of Sukhumvit, I was enjoying a walk there with my husband last night. It was our weekly grocery run. We marvelled at how open the area appears, now the construction barriers around Terminal 21 have been removed. It was nearly 9:30. I struggled to keep up with him in a pair of cheap shoes on cracked asphalt and concrete.
As we passed the Asoke Skytrain exit near Robinson, we were showered with clear liquid. It was too heavy to be from a bat or a bird, too brief to be rain. Where had it come from? The trees above my head? The stairs next to us, or the walkway beyond to Nana?
I thought someone had peed down on us from the steps as a practical joke, and scanned them, but they were empty. Then Roy called out: "My eyes – they're burning – they're fucked – get some water." As if in response, my scalp began to burn. Could a Skytrain cleaner have dumped extra chemicals onto us? I looked up – no cleaning buckets or employees in sight. Just the usual assortment of Skytrain passengers: middle-class Thais and foreigners. My eyes darted from Roy – crouched over, his hand over his eyes – to look for someone, anyone, who might have done this. The left side of my face and neck had been splashed by whatever-it-was, and the pain inflamed my panic.
This was no accident.
"Stay here," I shouted, and ran to street stalls, looking for water to flush his eyes. No luck. I dashed into McDonald's and rushed out again with a bottle. He flushed his eyes as I hailed a taxi.
Do you know how it feels to watch a loved one's eyes melt? Not metaphorically. But to watch them disintegrate. As our taxi driver kept up a bilingual patter about the fastest route to the hospital, Roy's eyes began to shed their outer membrane like jelly. It hung there like frozen tears.
"Don't rub your eyes!" I warned, but of course (he's the scientist), he knew exactly what was happening.
As I waited outside Bumrungrad Hospital's emergency room, I thought of a friend who'd lost her partner in Cambodia last week. Of how short all our lives are. Of how we deny death and forget to cherish our good health while we have it.
"It's acid or industrial cleaning fluid that caused the burns," the doctor said. "He's lost some of the conjunctiva in both eyes, but he's retained his vision. Come back tomorrow morning and see the opthamologist." He told Roy this is the third attack of this kind recently. Did the other two involve foreigners? We didn't ask. We don't really want to know.
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