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Thai police arrest foreign suspect over Bangkok shrine bombing
First picture released of man arrested at apartment on outskirts of city, where officials said bomb-making materials were found
Thai police arrested a foreign suspect bearing fake Turkish identity papers in an apartment packed with bomb-making material in the first major breakthrough in the investigation into the Bangkok shrine blast.
The arrest fuelled suspicions that the Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish terrorist group, might have committed the atrocity in retaliation after Thailand recently deported a group of ethnic Turkic Uighurs to China in the face of protests.
There have been no claims of responsibility for the bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Bangkok’s history that claimed the lives of six Thais and 14 visiting ethnic Chinese Asian tourists.
Thai police said that the arrested man was believed to be part of a network behind the shrine bombing and a blast the next day near a popular river tourist pier that caused no injuries.
“Our preliminary investigation shows that he is related to both bombings,” said Gen Prawuth Thavornsiri, the police spokesman.
Officers who conducted the raid found bomb-making materials, including detonators and the same sort of ball-bearings that were packed around the explosives in the blast.
They also retrieved up to 10 passports, including documents in the name of a Turkish man.
Police said the arrested man was not the chief bombing suspect shown on surveillance video footage leaving a bulky back-pack off at the blast scene a few minutes before the explosion
“We believe he is a culprit in the same network,” Gen Prawuth said.
Somyot Pumpanmuang, the national police chief, said later that he believed he arrested man was “taking personal revenge for his comrades”, without giving further details.
The Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish terrorist group, have emerged as possible suspects because of pan-Turkish anger at Thailand’s deportation of 109 Uighurs to China.
Thai police have been investigating the possible role of Turkish visitors to the kingdom as they searched for a suspect matching the composite sketch drawn from surveillance video footage of a man who left the bag at the shrine.
They suspect that Thais and Chinese could be prime targets for the group. And the bombing target was a Hindu shrine in the centre of Bangkok that is extremely popular with Buddhist Thais and ethnic Chinese visitors to the city.