Grenade at Thai temple fair kills eight

A grenade blast killed eight people and wounded 27 others during an outdoor celebration next to a Buddhist temple in north-eastern Thailand, police said today.

One of three men in a drunken brawl hurled a hand grenade in a field where hundreds of people were celebrating the completion of a new temple pavilion with dancing and folk music, said police Colonel Thammajak Kongmongkol.