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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.
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