The video, taken from cameras near the glittering shrine in the city’s bustling commercial hub, shows the young man in a bright yellow T-shirt with an indiscernible motif and shorts.
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At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured, including British and Singaporean tourists, in a blast at the popular Erawan shrine on Monday.
Police believe the man is a suspect in the blast that killed a number of people at a downtown shrine.
“The Royal Police has this and I would like to thank them for looking after me and being so supportive”, he said in the post.
The government called the bomb a bid to destroy the economy.
A day after Bangkok’s deadly bomb attack there has been a second explosion in the capital, this time at a ferry pier, but no one was hurt, police say.
Prawut earlier released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, on social media. The images were apparently taken from closed-circuit video before the bombing.
Police chief Somyot Poompanmoung made the comment as he headed into a meeting of national police commanders, saying he was carrying orders from the prime minister who “is anxious about the security of people and tourists in Thailand”.
Under the leadership of army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, the Thai people have violations of their civil liberties, including the suspension of the constitution. The explosion went off around 7 p.m.in an upscale area filled with tourists, office workers and shoppers.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Erawan shrine, a major attraction for both Hindus and Buddhists from Thailand and around Asia, especially China.
Police said that bomb was thrown from the Taksin Bridge and fell into the Chao Phraya River, where it exploded.
Although Thailand is predominantly Buddhist, Hinduism has an influence on its religious practices and language. Two Hong Kong residents died in the attack on the shrine, a popular tourist site. Officials at London’s BPP University said she had studied there.
“Everyone at BPP University is devastated to hear of the loss of one of our students, Vivian Chan Wing Yan, in Bangkok yesterday”.
The defence minister has said authorities are close to determining who detonated the bomb.
Lee Tiang Heng, the grandfather of the 4-year-old Lee Jing Sian, who was among the dead, told Malaysia’s New Strait Times daily newspaper: “The whole family is devastated with the news and we are finding it hard to come to terms with their deaths”.
“We’ve also seen some cancellations from high-end Chinese tourists, but that’s not much”, Tourism Council of Thailand President Ittirith Kinglake said Tuesday.
Prayuth vowed to “hurry and find the bombers”, though he noted there may be just one perpetrator. The Yellow Shirts were behind some of the biggest street protests in Bangkok, including the one that led to Shinawatra’s ouster in September 2006.
Then there is the fact that there have been bomb attacks before in Bangkok. In September 2006, he was ousted in a military coup and has been living in self-imposed exile in Dubai ever since.
If this was the work of a “crazy”, who considers himself a Shinawatra supporter, the Erawan carnage is the last thing that the party would want.
Visitors to Thailand were urged to register with their embassies and avoid affected areas. They were traveling on holiday in Bangkok in a group of seven.
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“We didn’t think anything like this could happen in Bangkok”, said Holger Siegle, a German who said he and his newlywed wife had chosen Thailand because it seemed safe. “Everyone could feel it. It was very distressing for everyone working there and rehearsing there at the time”.
