A second daylight bombing occurred on the afternoon of 19 January, in which 28 people were injured following an explosion at the Victory Monument anti-government protest rally site. According to Thaworn Senneam, a former Democrat MP based at the rally base who believes that he was the target of the bomb, an unidentified man threw an explosive device near a press centre tent behind the rally stage and fled at 1.30pm. Dr Suphan Srithamma, director-general of the Health Department, revealed on the day after the incident that four people have been killed and 238 injured in the anti-government protests thus far.