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The August 2015 attack at the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok’s commercial heart killed 20 and wounded over 100 more.
Published On 11 Jun 2026
A court in Thailand has handed the death penalty to two men for a 2015 attack at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, the deadliest bombing in the country’s history.
The court issued its long-delayed ruling on Thursday, convicting two Uighur men of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok’s commercial heart on August 17, 2015.
“The defendants committed a single act that violated multiple laws. The court therefore imposed the harshest penalty available under the law, the death sentence,” one member of the four-judge panel said.
The defendants, Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed, had denied the charges against them.
The decade-long trial over the horrific attack in Thailand’s capital that also wounded more than 100 people was beset by delays due to COVID-19 disruptions and problems securing translators.
Multiple Chinese tourists were among the dead when explosives – apparently left in a backpack – detonated at the Erawan Hindu shrine popular with tourists.
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