Arrest warrant for ‘foreign man’ seen in Bangkok blast footage

Thai police say they have questioned and freed one man who handed himself in after being seen on CCTV at the Bangkok shrine moments before a deadly bomb blast, but the prime suspect remains at large.

“There must be people who know (the) escape route and take the bomber to do it”.

Thai authorities have said the incident is “unlikely” to be related to any global terrorist groups.

Monday’s blast killed 20 people, mostly Asian visitors, leaving residents and even the military junta leader fearing more attacks, while sending shockwaves though the nation’s vital tourism sector.

Police issued a sketch of the main suspect Wednesday, showing a young man in glasses with bushy, dark hair cut shorter on the sides.

Thailand’s police chief has said at least ten people are thought to have played apart in the explosion, which has been linked to anti-government protestors.

Perpetrators Police believe that the attack, which injured 125, was carried out by a network of perpetrators and Mr Prawut said police were now convinced that two other men seen in the video footage were accomplices.

The video looks pretty damning, but it’s worth noting that security footage has led to false identifications of suspects, including mistaken ethnicities, after a number of attacks in the past, including the attempted 2010 Times Square bombing, and-with more tragic consequences-the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Police on Thursday doubled the reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest to 2 million Thai baht ($56,000), according to the government-run National News Bureau of Thailand.

The two men were seen in a security video standing in front of a man dressed in a yellow T-shirt who police have identified as the main suspect, shortly before the bomb exploded on Monday evening.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, the victims of which included one Briton.

The man could be of “mixed origin”, Prawut said in a televised interview.

The shrine reopened Wednesday morning to the public.

“I don’t suspect one person, I suspect many people”, police head Somyot Pumpanmuang said.

Sullivan says the prime minister called the attack “the worst ever in Thailand and has vowed to find those responsible”.

Two suspects in the bombing at a shrine in Thailand’s capital that killed 20 people handed themselves in Thursday, saying they are tour guides, the BBC reports, citing authorities in the country.