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“Our thoughts are with the people of Thailand at this time of shock and grief”, said a statement by the spokesperson for the European External Action Service.

The image was apparently based on security camera footage taken from the site of the Erawan Shrine in the minutes before the bomb was detonated.

Meanwhile, the shrine that was the scene of Monday’s deadly attack reopened to the public on Wednesday.

Security services in Thailand have released images of a suspect they are seeking in connection with Monday night’s bombing at a popular shrine in Bangkok that has left at least 20 dead and over 100 injured.

An explosive device was hurled toward a crowd at a riverside pier in the heart of the Thai capital but apparently missed its target on Tuesday, police said.

National police chief General Somyot Poompanmoung said the attack was carried out by a “network”. Police released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, as well as a detailed sketch, and asked the public to provide information about him.

“There have been minor bombs or just noise, but this time they aimed for innocent lives”, Prayuth said Tuesday. However, investigators have not been able to determine the nationality of the man or ascertain if he was still in Thailand, National Chief of Police Somyot...

The initial bomb exploded at around 7 p.m. (1200GMT) in Rajprasong, a commercial area of central Bangkok near the Erawan Shrine – a revered Hindu statue visited by thousands of tourists every day.

A pair of suicide bombers have detonated their explosives at the home of an anti-Taliban provincial minister, killing him and 13 others in eastern Pakistan, officials said.

Palestinian detainee Shireen Issawi, held by Israel without trial for alleged involvement with terrorist groups, launched a hunger strike Monday in solidarity with a prisoner who’s protested by going without food for over two months.

A stream of worshipers and Buddhist monks arrived to pray at the Hindu religious site, which is popular with locals and Chinese tourists.

Otherwise, he would have been at the shrine around the time of the explosion.

The bomb attack that killed 20 people at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine on Monday was carried out by a “network”, Thailand’s chief of police has said. However, they now believe he is foreign per the arrest warrant issued by Bangkok’s Southern Criminal Court.

Police were offering a one million baht (£17,935) reward “to whoever can give information that leads to the arrest of the suspect”.

The Thai Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London said: “We… are deeply saddened to hear the news of Miss Chan “Vivian” Wing-Yan, a Law Student at SOAS, who passed away yesterday after a bomb blast in central Bangkok”.