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However, Prawut said yesterday that the suspect had actually left Dhaka for New Delhi before heading for Abu Dhabi and then to Turkey.

Police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said that an arrest warrant has been issued for Abdul Tawab on charges of conspiracy to possess unauthorised explosives and conspiracy to possess unauthorised war materials.

Thai police are confident of being able to directly interrogate the three suspects arrested by Malaysian police, who may have information to help its ongoing investigation into the group of people responsible for the deadly bomb attack in central Bangkok on Aug 17.

Thai authorities have said they are hunting a foreigner and at least two other men suspected of carrying out the devastating bombing of a Bangkok shrine that killed at least 20 people.

The deadly Bangkok bomb took over one month to plan and was executed by more than 10 people, the kingdom’s police chief said Thursday, as more details emerged of the suspected network behind an attack that killed 20 people.

The pair got up from a bench at the Erawan shrine just before the suspected bomber sat down, later leaving his backpack behind.

Thai National Police Chief Somyot Poompanmoung said Wednesday the suspected bomber was likely acting as part of a network, but investigators have not yet established his motives or nationality.

Four Chinese citizens are among the dead.

Thailand’s military junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree says that this week’s deadly bombing in Bangkok was “unlikely to be linked to global terrorism”.

Thailand’s police chief said Monday the investigation into last week’s bomb blast has been hampered by broken security cameras in central Bangkok along the main suspect’s getaway route. He is being charged with possessing an illegal weapon, which carries a...

Authorities had said they were looking for a “woman wearing a black shirt” who video showed standing in front of the prime suspect, but they now believe she is not connected to Monday’s blast, which killed least 20 people and wounded more than 120.

A woman prays at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, August 19, 2015.

“This includes those who looked out on the streets, prepared the bomb and those at the site and… those who knew the escape route”.

Prime suspect… the Royal Thai Police released this image of a man in a yellow T-shirt near the Erawan Shrine before the explosion.

“There have been minor bombs or just noise, but this time they aim for innocent lives”.