Flowers are laid at the entrance to the reopened Erawan Shrine after last week’s deadly explosion in Bangkok. He is being charged with possessing an illegal weapon, which carries a prison sentence of up to five years. Bullet proof jackets are considered military equipment in Thailand, whose laws prohibit their possession without a license.
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Police have also received one million baht from an anonymous person who wanted to top up the police reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects.
National police chief Somyot Poompanmoung said that police were trying to “put pieces of the puzzle together” but had to use their imagination to fill holes where street side security cameras were broken and unable to record his movements.
“It was left in the house of a construction worker”, he said.
Despite new surveillance video that may offer a clue to the bombing in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, Thai police said Sunday that the attackers may have already fled the country and that they will “need some luck” to catch them.
While Thailand’s top cop blamed outdated equipment for the seemingly stalled-out hunt for the attacker behind the Erawan Shrine bombing, a police spokesman yesterday said the bomber had likely carefully timed the attacks so that he wouldn’t have lingered in the country.
A spokesman for Thailand’s ruling junta said they have been able to use closed circuit television to learn the transportation route that the main suspect took to and from the downtown Erawan shrine.
The police are investigating the incident, but despite strict security measures at airports and borders no suspects have yet been apprehended.
On Friday Panthongtae “Oak” Shinawatra said on his facebook page he would give 2 million baht to anyone who can give leads to the bomber and the remaining 5 million to officials working the case, thus adding an additional 7 million baht to the arrest of the suspects.
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At about 1 p.m. Tuesday, an explosion took place in the water canal near a busy pier without hurting anyone.
