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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 Poompanmoung said Wednesday, according to Reuters. A government spokesman said that both bombs used TNT but no link has been...

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.

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.

A Thai motorbike taxi driver who believes he picked up the chief suspect in the bombing of Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine shortly after the blast said the man appeared calm and spoke an unfamiliar language on his cellphone.

The government said the attack during the Monday evening rush hour, in the capital’s bustling commercial hub, was aimed at destroying the economy.

The Douma Civil Defense team of volunteer search and rescue workers has now documented 95 of the dead by name, a further five that couldn’t be identified and 11 bodies still stuck in the rubble, the group’s local media liaison officer Majid Khalaf told VICE News on Monday.

The government said Monday evening’s attack at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok was aimed at wrecking the economy, which depends heavily on tourism.

At least 22 people were killed and scores wounded in the unprecedented attack on the city. Police said that three kilograms of a high-grade explosive were stuffed inside a pipe at the shrine and detonated with a remote-control device. There was lots of noise and helicopters...

“The yellow shirt guy is not just the suspect”.

Before all 15 council members approved the text, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the presidential statement “would be the first exclusively political document on the Syrian crisis adopted by consensus”.

Wright, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff, told Bayne, on his fourth day of cross-examination, “I didn’t meddle with any audit”. I hold Mr. Duffy accountable for not having repaid his expenses, and Mr. Wright responsible for those...

“Australians should continue to go to Thailand because the objective of the sorts of people who let off bombs in crowded cities is to scare us from being ourselves and we should never be intimidated by that”, Mr Abbott said.

Bomb squad experts Tuesday sifted through the debris of a blast at a Bangkok religious shrine where at least 21 people were killed and scores wounded in an unprecedented attack on the city.