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“Thai police arrest foreigner over bombing at Bangkok shrine,” By The Associated Press, August 29, 2015
ADVERTISEMENTPolice won’t confirm reports that suspect is Turkish national, but say bomb materials were found in his apartment
Emergency personnel work at the scene after an explosion in central Bangkok, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Sackchai Lalit)
BANGKOK — Thai police arrested a foreign suspect and seized bomb-making materials Saturday in the investigation of a deadly shrine bombing, officials said Saturday.
“It is most likely he is related to the bombing at Rajaprasong,” deputy police chief Chakthip Chaijinda said of the suspect. The blast at the Erawan Shrine in the commercial Rajaprasong district of the capital on Aug. 17 killed 20 people, including foreigners.
ADVERTISEMENTThe man was arrested Saturday in Nong Jok on the outskirts of Bangkok. Chakthip said, “We found bomb materials in his apartment.”
National police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said that the arrested person is a foreigner, but refused to say if he was Turkish, as was reported by some local news organizations.
He said a news conference was planned later Saturday.
This image released by the Royal Thai Police on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, shows a detailed sketch of the main suspect in a bombing that killed a number of people at the Erawan shrine in downtown Bangkok, on Monday. (Royal Thai Police via AP)
This image released by the Royal Thai Police on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, shows a detailed sketch of the main suspect in a bombing that killed a number of people at the Erawan shrine in downtown Bangkok, on Monday. (Royal Thai Police via AP)
Soon after the bombing, police released an artist’s sketch of a man seen in a security camera video from the open-air shrine leaving a backpack at a bench and walking away. A separate camera showed the suspect, wearing a yellow T-shirt, on the back of a motorcycle taxi leaving the site.
ADVERTISEMENTAn arrest warrant issued earlier for the unknown suspect described him as a “foreign man,” although a military spokesman said a connection to international terrorism seemed unlikely.
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