More than 10 people involved in Bangkok bombing

Burns told a television news channel that he nearly had a panic attack when he saw himself being mistaken by people on social media for the Bangkok bomber.

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.

The deadly bombing of a shrine in the Thai capital of Bangkok is likely to be linked to global terrorist network, a spokesman for the country’s military junta said Thursday.

But when contacted by telephone for clarification, he said that a link to global terrorism hadn’t been ruled out. “Sometimes we can’t control this”, he said.

Four Chinese citizens are among the dead.

There has been no claim of responsibility and police have not determined a motive for the worst ever bomb attack in Thailand.

The bomb struck during Monday’s rush hour in a popular tourist area in the city’s commercial heart, studded by upscale shopping malls and five-star hotels. Authorities say security has been tightened citywide mainly with plain clothed officers.

Police chief Somyot Poompanmuang said: “It is a big network”. Thai police on Wednesday released a composite sketch of the Erawan Shrine bombing suspect, offering a one million baht ($28,000) reward for any information on the man.

“This blast was made by teams”, he told reporters.

Thai police released a sketch of the man with features they characterized as Caucasian, Arab or mixed race, saying he was about 20 to 30 years old and 5 feet 7 inches tall.

The men – a tourist and tour guide described by the colors of the shirts they were wearing at the shrine: white and red – were taken to metro police headquarters for interrogation, said Col. Decha Promsuwan, a police official in Bangkok.

At the same news conference, spokesman Prawut said “two to three” people had been questioned by police since the attack. But they don’t have any indication what language it was.

The picture was also partly based on a description provided by a motorcycle taxi driver, who believed he gave the suspect a ride on the night of the blast.

Later on Wednesday police authorities claimed that two other individuals, also seen on CCTV footage, were wanted for questioning.

The blast came at a sensitive time for Thailand, which has been riven for a decade by a sometimes-violent struggle for power between political factions in Bangkok.