“There must be people who know escape route and take the bomber to do it”.
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He said the preliminary investigation into the attack showed that the Chinese people were not the target because other nationalities too were hurt.
The Monday evening attack at the Erawan Shrine, a popular tourist site that is known to attract Chinese visitors, left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured.
Bangkok’s Southern Criminal Court later issued an arrest warrant for the unidentified “foreign” man, for charges including conspiracy to commit pre-mediated murder, as well as charges related to the possession of unauthorized explosives and weapons.
“We are confident at least three people were involved in this, but maybe more”, Kissana said.
Chinese national Gao Yu Ping, who lost his wife and daughter in Monday’s deadly blast, cries at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok, Thailand.
No-one has yet said they carried out the attack.
This image released by the Royal Thai Police on Wednesday, August 19, …
The sketch, say police, could help locate the yellow-shirted man seen in the CCTV footage.
The sketch was based on footage that showed a man dressed in a yellow T-shirt dumping a backpack inside the shrine compound and walking away through a crowd of tourists about 20 minutes before the explosion.
Authorities said they would seek Interpol help in hunting a foreign man believed to be involved in the bombing.
“From today (Thursday) we will go and “x-ray” areas in and out of Bangkok“, police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters earlier, without explaining whether that would entail raids.
Authorities have offered a one million baht reward for information leading to the arrest of the prime suspect. Nobody has claimed responsibility for either blast.
The video looks pretty damning, but it’s worth noting that security footage has led to false identifications of suspects, including mistaken ethnicities, after a number of attacks in the past, including the attempted 2010 Times Square bombing, and-with more tragic consequences-the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Prayuth Chan-Ocha, Thailand’s Prime Minister, says his government is not ruling out any possibilities regarding the attack’s initiators, while warning that the blast signals a threat to all southeast Asian nations.
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Victims’ relatives have been struggling to come to terms with the tragedy, including a Malaysian family that lost four of its members.
