ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital on Wednesday (April 2) as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with a blow torch, killing at least seven people and injuring 19, police said.<br/> <br />Construction workers found the shell at a construction site and brought it to a warehouse on the outskirts of Bangkok to be cut up.<br/> <br />Pools of blood and body parts were scattered on the floor of the warehouse.<br/> <br />Reuters camera footage showed just the shell of the building remained, its interior a mesh of twisted metal as firefighters doused flames and burning embers.<br/> <br />Allied bombing raids on Bangkok began in 1942. Japan was using the country as a staging post for its invasions of then-Burma and Malaya.
