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Morning Star

Police arrest key Bangkok bombing suspect

THAI police arrested a suspect yesterday in last month’s bombing of a Bangkok shrine which killed 20 people.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced that the suspect resembles the yellow-shirted man captured on CCTV video just before the explosion, who police identified as the prime suspect.

“It would be great if he were [the bomber]. Then we will know who they are, where they came from, who’s behind this,” said Mr Prayuth.

He said the man is a foreigner and was detained in eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border.

His DNA will be matched to samples obtained from motorbike and tuk-tuk taxis the police believe the bomber took.

While no group has claimed responsibility for the bomb, the two prevailing theories for the motive are Thailand’s recent deporting of ethnic Uighurs to China and the the crackdown on people traffickers along the country’s mountainous border.

 

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