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Petals on the water bid farewell to Bangkok bomb victim

Published Sun, Aug 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Samut Prakan, Thailand

REACHING low over the river, Kritsuda Narongplaian gently opened her palm and let the breeze carry away a fistful of orange marigold petals: her final farewell to a boyfriend cut down by the bomb at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine.

Yutthanarong Singro was delivering a document near the monument in the Thai capital last Monday when the bomb went off, killing him and 19 other people. He was 38.

On Sunday, around 40 of his friends and family gathered on a ferry in Samut Prakan province east of …

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