Driver injures 5 at site of Bangkok bombing

By CS Thana

BANGKOK (AA) - A driver injured five people and herself when she drove her car into the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok on Friday night -- the site of the worst terrorist attack in Thai history nearly one year ago.

Soldiers and police immediately cordoned off the area, which they described as the scene of an accident.

"There were two people in the car, a mother and a daughter," Metropolitan Police Commander Sanit Mahathavorn told reporters at the scene.

"The mother was driving and suffered a seizure leading to the accident," he added

Two Uighur men from China are presently awaiting trial charged with the Aug. 17 2015 bombing, in which 20 people --mostly foreign nationals -- died and 100 more were injured while visiting the shrine.

The shrine -- particularly popular with tourists from Asia -- houses a golden statue of Phra Phrom -- the four-faced Thai representation of the Hindu god of creation, Brahma.