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muriel_volestrangler

(101,320 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 09:12 AM Aug 2015

Thai police arrest Bangkok bomb suspect

Source: The Guardian

Thai police have arrested a suspect in connection with the bomb attack on a Hindu temple in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, including a British national.

A police spokesman told Reuters that the arrested man fitted the description of the main suspect in the attack on the Erawan shrine in the central Chidlom district of the Thai capital.

Police arrested the suspect on Saturday in Nong Jok, on the northern outskirts of Bangkok.

Officers raided an apartment used by the man and discovered possible bomb-making materials, police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said. The suspect “looks like the one we are looking for”, he said. “They also found a lot of materials which can be used to make bombs.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/bangkok-bombing-thai-police-arrest-suspect



May not be the person who actually place the bomb. Lots of passports found in the apartment, and this man's looks like a crudely forged Turkish one.
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