The foreign suspect arrested here in connection with Thailand’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here has confessed that he carried out the attack, his lawyer said, contradicting his client’s earlier claims that he was not in the country at the time of crime.
lawyer Choochart Kaphai told reporters that he met with his client Adem Karadag — also known as Bilal Mohammed and Bilal Turk —for about an hour today at the military camp where he has been detained.
During the meeting, Karadag “voluntarily confessed” to being the man seen on cctv wearing a yellow-tee shirt who left a pipebomb at the Erawan Brahma shrine which killed 20 people and injured more than 130 others. Karadag’s confession contradicts his earlier claims he was not in the country at the time of the attack.
Police said his confession, together with other security camera footage and eyewitness accounts, confirmed they had the right man, after earlier saying DNA evidence suggested it was unlikely to be him.