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BANGKOK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - A suspected car bomb killed one person in central Bangkok on Tuesday, near where anti-government protesters were laying siege to parliament, a senior police officer said.

"I suspect it was a car bomb because the body parts were cut in pieces and an arm was blown 20 metres away from the car," Colonel Somchai Choyklin, head of Bangkok's Dusit police station, told Reuters.

Somchai said police suspected the blast, which had charred the victim's body and made it difficult to identify, was linked to the clashes between anti-government protesters and police.

Somchai said the explosion was caused by an "improvised explosive device".

The victim, believed to be a man, was not the owner of the vehicle, he said. (Reporting by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Alan Raybould)

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