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The noise was ear-splitting and were it not for a man with a mask over his mouth to protect his lungs from the billowing smoke, you might have wondered where on earth it had come from.
But the explosive sounds repeated again and again, continuing with just a few periodic gaps.
Nearby, worshippers were kneeling prostrate in front an architecturally-beautiful monument, some with roses between their prayer-like palms, clearly paying homage. And the explosions? They were also paying for those and were happy to do so.
But this was no Hindu deity they were worshipping or even Buddha himself, but Krom Luang Chumphon Khet Udom Sak, or Prince Chumphon, 28th son of Kin...
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