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However, on Friday, police spokesman Prawut Thornsiri said one of the warrants issued was for “Bilal Mohammed, who is the man in yellow who placed the rucksack at the Erawan shrine“.

The first picture released by police identified his ethnicity as Uighur, but the police later released another picture with the reference deleted and asked the media not to identify him as Uighur. “If they did, he would not have got past our net”, said an Indian...

Six people, including a Pakistani and three women, have been detained by Malaysian and Thai authorities as part of their probe into Thailand’s deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple last month that claimed 20 lives.

Khalid said at the moment, the suspects will remain in Malaysian police’s custody to facilitate investigation and that they are working closely with Thai police.

Crime Suppression Division commander Pol Maj Gen Akradej Pimolsri said today (Sept 21) that Joel Reyes, 63, former governor of Palawan province, and his brother, Mario Reyes, 54, a former municipal mayor in the same western province, were apprehended yesterday (Sept 20) following...

De Lima sacked two BI personnel – Administrative aide Rogelo Udarbe Jr. and immigration officer Wesley Gutierrez – for allegedly aiding the Reyes brothers in their escape. “We acknowledge the efforts of Interpol and Thai authorities in making this...

Joel Reyes, a former provincial governor, and his brother, Mario, a former town mayor, were detained on the Thai holiday island of Phuket yesterday, said presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma.

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

Thailand’s military apprehended a second foreign suspect in connection with the deadly August 17 bombing in central Bangkok, said Winthai Suwaree, spokesman of the National Council for Peace and Order.

Thailand said Thursday global terror groups were likely not behind a deadly Bangkok shrine bombing, but appealed for Interpol help in hunting a foreign man accused of being the prime suspect.

Authorities are hunting for the man seen on a surveillance video putting a backpack under a bench in the shrine and then walking away shortly before the blast went off.

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.

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.

Thai police on Wednesday said they called in two or three people – mostly foreigners – for questioning as they search for the suspect, according to the AP. The central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday to the public after Monday’s bomb blast as authorities…

Four Chinese citizens are among the dead.